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NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 1975 3 Barbershoppers Are Never... SP£BSQSAted
By Bill Marvel, St. Jo::.eph. Mo.
Reprinted with permISSion from The National Observer, copyright Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 1975.
There are certain sounds that have the power to send a French root of the word is 'to love.' An amateur singer is a prickly chill skittering up the back of my neck. The tinny person who pursues singing because of his love for it." clatter of geese flying south. A train in the night. Surf. And, "Look around," says barbershopper Wallace De Pue, a for several weeks now, a barbershop quartet in fllll cry. professor of music at Bowling Green (Ohio) State University. Barbershop? The very word is an image problem. Here they "If this had been a group of professional singers singing here are, four gents in straw boaters, candy-striped jackets, and all week, by now they wOllld have lost their voices." false mustachios, their grease'slicked hair parted dead center, 'Shape the Sounds' pouring their hearts out on some lumbering old mastodon of a After lunch, everyone returns to the auditorium for the song. "Sweet Adeline," "Down by the Old Mill Stream" afternoon classes. Mac Huff, of the society's mllsic staff, is in how can anyone under 87 be driven to goose bumps by that? charge. The answer is, that is not barbershop. Whatever barbershop "Shape the sOlll1ds," he shouts from the stage, and 500 harmony is - and barbershoppers themselves sometimes don't voices shape the sounds: "Pearls - please - pretty seem to be sure - the boaters and waxed mustaches are a Penelope -" caricature, some cartoonist's libel. Real barbershop is ... is "Let the little puff come," exhorts Huff. something else, as I learned at Harmony College here. I had "God - gives - good - gifts - gracefully ... Let's come prepared to snicker. I went away charmed. This is a love make - love - mean - more - my - Nel ... " song to real barbershop. "Energize the M!" commands Huff. Meanwhile, tape Harmony College is not a real college, though it is held on recorders whir, catching all this for use back home at chapter the Missouri Western State College campus. It is a yearly, meetings. The tape recorder is the barbershopper's ubiquitous week-long crash course and revival meeting for hard-core companion, like the Japanese tourist's camera. When there is barbershop fanatics, sponsored by the Society for the Preserva no one else to harmonize with, a barbershopper with a pair of tion and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in tape recorders can sing all four parts, recording and rerecord America, Inc. ISPEBSQSA). The fanatics come from all over ing until he has created a one-man quartet or a whole chorus. the United States and Canada (and, this year, from England) Huff is into his windup now, a little pep talk on just to arrange, compose, direct, and most of all, to sing in the communicating the message of a song. "You pass a song in barbershop idiom. front of an audience. It may take yOll two or three minutes. They sing it morning, evening, and long into the night. They may never have heard it before. If in those few moments Little knots of them harmonize in the hallways, serenade in you do not get an emotional response from the audience, you the stair wells. Heads bowed in sweet song, they file along the have failed." sidewalks toward lunch, a strange monkish order. "It is a monastic kind of life here," an officer of the society Rather Like Sex agrees. No women, except for the cafeteria servers. Not He leads them through Irving Berlin's "All By Myself." enough hard spirits to warm the throat of a canary. If "Would you look a little sadder, please?" he calls out as they barbershoppers have a vice, it is probably ice cream, which near the punch line: they consume by great heaping bowlfuls, I'd like to rest my weary head on somebody's shoulder, J The Illl1chroom is a cacophony of tenors, leads, baritones, hate to grow older . .. (very softly now) ... all by myself . .. and basses as Bob Johnson, the society's director of music They draw it out and the sound gathers, the vibrations of education, reaches for an image to describe the Harmony 500 male voices reinforcing each other until there is another College experience. Finally he has it: St. Paul on the road to sound above and beyond what is being sung: The chord Damascus, St. John at the Jordan's side. "It's like a conver· blooms. That bloom is the point of it all; barbershoppers call it sian," he says, "like dipping somebody in hot oil - hot ringing a chord, and they speak of it in terms reserved only for barbershop." the most intense experiences. "The only thing I can compare it Johnson is one of 30 full·time employes at the society's to is sex, says Charles O'Dom, of Brighton, Englnad. "It has a Kenosha, Wis. headquarters, and one of the 500 or so music physical quality you can actually feel, right here in the professionals - mostly music educators - in the society's throat." ranks. The remainder of SPEBSQSA's 36,000 members are Anyway, it is very moving. As the last echoes die away. the enthusiastically, even militantly, amateur. singers applaud themselves. Barbershoppers applaud every "I found this is the only way to really enjoy music," says one - themselves, when they've sung particularly well; other Johnson. "It's the total expression of amateurism in music, I barbershoppers; their directors; their audiences; even me, for have this dumb philosophy of amateurism. You see, the being here to write about them.
4 THE HARMONIZER A Slide·Rule Approach America. Suddenly people gave up standing around a piano Then they file out to classes! in search of The Bloom. There and singing and took up sitting around a radio and listening. is a scientific explanation for ringing a chord, it turns out, and Ever since, barbershop has been a rescue operation. Which Jim Richards, a barbershopper and a physicist with the 3M explains Stevens' worries about the purity of the idiom. Company in St. Paul, has that explanation. Something about (Posted all over walls, bumpers, luggage, and notebooks at the natural vibrations of sound waves and the resonances of Harmony College is a sticker with the stern admonition: KEEP voices reinforcing each other at the same time, if I read my IT BARBERSHOP.) notes right. Richards has devised a slide rule that enables Fortunately, barbershop can be manufactured as well as barbershoppers to calculate exactly what notes will produce a reconstructed. All barbershoppers genuflect toward Meredith chord that rings. Slide rules, charts, oscilloscopes, and tape WilisGn, who in the 1950s created a classic barbershop recorders litter the workbench in the classroom where number, "Lida Rose," for The Music Man. So begins the Richards is teaching a course on the physics of sound. The talk strange story of Leigh D. Soufas, a tall, thin, somewhat gangly is all of frequencies, energies, amplification, sine waves, youth with peach·fuzz cheeks, from Columbia, S.C. harmonics, and phonetics. I escape to a class in beginning Indelibly etched in Soufas' memory is the afternoon he sat directing. in a movie theater watching The Music Man. There is a line in Here, Ray Danley of Toronto is teaching Frank Layne of HLida Rose" where the tenor is required to sustain, for five Omaha, Neb., how to conduct a barbershop chrous through full seconds, a note so high that theretofore only angels had "My Gal Sal." A songbook is pressed into my hand and I attempted it. During the movie, at the moment the tenor of suddenly find myself singing lead (the melody). This is no the legendary Buffalo 8ills quartet reached for, and took hold hobby for introverts. of, that line, a fanatic was born. Levitation and Corn Resplendent Threads Barbershop directing leans toward the athletic. Chorus Ever afterwards, Soufas lived for just one thing: to sing directors have been known to actually leave the ground, to "Lida Rose." His chances came the year his high school levitate, during particularly vigorous numbers, such as "Alex selected The Music Man as the school musical. "There were ander's Ragtime Band." But Danley is only trying to get Layne tryouts:' he recalls blissfully. "I was the only one who could to plead with his forehead as he leads us through a second sustain falsetto tenor on high A." He has been a Barbershopper number, "Why Did You Say Good·bye?" Layne screlllches up and a regular at Harmony College ever since. He is clearly mad. his brow. But no more so than most of those gathered in the audience Why did you say good-bye? for Saturday night's show, the culmination of the week's work WIW did you choose to part? (and a prototype of shows to be presented next year by many You were so happy beside me, of the society's 700 local chapters). Here, the pick of the Mine was a loving heart . ... quartets and a chorus of Harmony students sing the melodies The lyrics are quintessentially barbershop, of course. No of Irving Berlin. One after another they parade to the front of other form of music would touch them, but barbershop revels the stage - the Empire Songsters, the Calling Chords, the in such stuff. "They have to bo down-to-earth lyrics," says Diamond Tones. And such threads I No tacky straw boaters Dave Stevens, head of the society's music-publishing program. here. Barbershop quartets dress resplendently; velvet vests, silk "Mother, home, God." He quotes an example: .. 'A little lane bow ties, cream-colored suits with white piping, white patent without a turning, on the way to home, sweet home . .. ' Now leather boots. that's a damn good barbershop lyric. Sentimental, a little Then the Happiness Emporium comes on, four men from corny." Minneapolis·St. Paul who last June clambered over 44 other Stevens is the author of the society's official definition of quartets to be judged the greatest barbershop quartet in the barbershop harmony, and it is a definition he polices with entire universe, the international champions. They arrived at vigilance. "It's only in the past four or five years, when we've Harmony College earlier Saturday, gold medals dangling been making a desperate attempt to save the style, that we've around their necks, and their appearance sent a pulse of been asking what that style is," Stevens says. "The secret of electricity across the campus. Everybody wanted to shake barbershopping can be traced back to the fact that it started as their hands, touch the hem of their garments. a strictly by-ear approach. Guys with pretty good ears could It is soon apparent why. As Emporium member Bob woodshed (improvise). There should be four voices, or levels Dowma explains, IIWhat we strive for is a four-part singable of manipulation. If a song doesn't need manipulation, it isn't chord on every single note in a song." When they sing "My barbershop." Lady Loves to Dance," not only is there a chord on each note, Almost invariably, the lead carries the melody, with the but there is a bloom on each chord, a rich resonance that tenor harmonizing above, the bass below, and the baritone reminds one of train whistles on foggy nights. filling in wherever he sounds best. "The implied harmony of a After this the program ends. After all, what could anyone barbershop song should be readily apparent to the ear and it do for an encore? should be varied," Stevens continues. "There ought to be One Last Song room for mutual embellishment. We don't go right out to a bar A stranger would expect a rush for the door. But no, every line, like Bach did. We think a song should have empty spaces man remains in place for one last song, "Keep America to do things with. We call them tiddlies. Handel had his frills, Singing:' the society's official theme. The sound of 493 voices pianists have their cadenzas. That's their tiddly." (somebody counted) swells until the hall becomes a giant A Fanatic Is Born sounding board. Pure music reverberates, blooms, spills alit The golden age of barbershop lasted from the 1890s until into the night. The very universe sings. the deployment of the Marconi wireless in parlors across (Continued on page 34)
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1975 5 200-Man Chorus Readies for Mid-Winter
Breathes there a Barbershopper with soul so dead who "Salute to America" is but one part of the Saturday-night wouldn't like to be in Washington on January 31 when an over package. The international champion "Happiness Emporium" 200·man chorus premieres the Society's Bicentennial show, will be on hand with their special brand of fine music and "Salute to America?" We realize, of course, that all of you entertainment as well as the second place medalist "Innsiders," can't be on hand at the John F. Kennedy concert hall that What a shawl night, but all indications are that many of you will be. Without Still not satisfied? Well, how about another show on Friday question, this will be the biggest mid-winter ever. Which is night? That's just what's scheduled, this time featuring the another way of saying, "better get your ticket reservations and third through fifth place medalists: "Grandma's Boys," the registration in right now." You see, that concert hall seats only "Boston Common" and the "Vagabonds." The Friday-night 2,700. When those seats are gone, there just aren't any more. show will take place in the hotel ballroom. This seats only Not that the Saturday night show is the only thing going on about 1,300 so on$:e again, better get your seats now.
at the convention (we'll tell you about some more of the The Convention itself starts on Friday I January 30, with goodies in a moment). but it's a biggie. Members from the the international board meeting at the headquarters Statler Riverside Area chapters (who are hosting the mid- winter) have Hilton hotel. But while the decision makers are busy, been rehearsing for two months as a massed chorus under Convention Chairman John Cullen and his committee have Dundalk's (Md.) resident genius, Fred King. Society Music arranged for some interesting tours of the historic capital city. Education and Services Director Robert D. Johnson is also On Friday, there will be a city tour which includes the Capitol, making a couple of trips into the area for special rehearsals, national archives, famous monuments and memorials, govern' and will direct the group on stage for the show on January ment buildings and a short run through a residential area. On 31st. Saturday, another tour will take Barbershoppers and their TICKET AND TOUR ORDER FORM families to Arlington Cemetery and Mt. Vernon. Sounds like a great mid·winter convention. Right? Don't be TO: Dee Paris disappointed then; get your registration in now. Remember, 13110 Holdridge Rd. seats are assigned on the basis of when registrations are Silver Spring, Md. 20906 received; first registrations get the best seats. And on Decem ber I, seats will go on sale to the general public. Up until that Enclosed is a check for __to cover the cost of the following: time, Barbershoppers will get preference. One last thing before you put that registration form and Afterglow tickets at $2.50 money for tickets in the mail. If you're flying in, be sure to get a flight to Washington National airport rather than Dulles. Friday night show tickets at $4.00 Ummo service from National to the hotel is far better, and it's a much shorter distance. Saturday night show tickets at $8 __; $7__ ; $6__ See you at the mid-winter.
NOTE If you have already filled out and sent in a registration form (see form on next page) which included an order for SCHEDULE OF EVENTS tickets, do not duplicate above. Also, if.you have sent in your Friday, January 30 $2.50 registration fee, you have free admission to the afterglow. Registration - 9 a_m. to 8 p.m. - Statler Hilton Hotel; Inter national Board Meeting - 9 a.m. - South American Room; Friday city tour tickets at $3.00 Hospitality Room - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Pan American Room; City tour - Leave at 12:30 p.m. and arrive back at 4:30; Saturday Arlington Cemetery and Mt. Varnon tour tick Friday night show - 8 p.m. - Presidential and Congressional rooms. ets at $4,00 Saturday, January 31 NAME Registration - 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Statler Hilton; Hospitality Room - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Harmony Foundation Meeting STREET _ 10:30 a.m. - Ohio Room; Arlington Cemetery and Mt. Vernon tOllr - leaves at 10 a.m. and returns at 2 p.m.; "Salute CITY STATE/PROV. ZIP to America" show - 8:30 p.m. - Concert Hall, John F. Kennedy Center; Afterglow - Presidential and Congressional All tickets will be held for pick up at the Statler Hilton hotel. Rooms, Statler Hilton ..
6 THE HARMONIZER Registration Form THE TO: Dee Paris 13110 Holdridge Rd. HarQTSMeN Silver Spring. Md. 20906 Chorus Enclosed is a check for to cover the cost of Now you can get your own stereo record· registration(s) at $2.50 each for the Mid-Winter Convention ings by the Hartsmen -- "Love Songs Glad of S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. in Washington, D. C., Jan. 30 and 31, & Sad" and "Love at First Sound." Both 1976; tickets to the Saturday night Bicentennial show records were made at Universal Studios·· at $8 each; and __ tickets to the special Friday night show Chicago and are of the highest quality. at $4 each. I understand that by paying my registration fee prior to December 1, I will receive preferential seating at the Even more exciting is a live, in-person Saturday night show and first chance for Friday night show performance. You can obtain the de· tickets. It is also understood that the $2.50 registration fee tails from the Hartsmen for your show, entitles me to my convention badge and free admission to convention, meeting, or banquet. the afterglow. All tickets wi II be held for pick up in the registration area at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. For those who wish to register and pay for their ti.ckets individually, forms will appear in the Nov.-Dec. HARMONIZER. Alter Dec. 1, 1975, slightly less desirable seats ($6 and $7) will also be available for the Saturday night show. NAME _
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NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 1975 7 BARBERSHOP SONG: Vehicle for Journey Toward Musical Excellence
By Val Hicks, Arrangement Category Specialist, 6053 N. Flora. Fresno, Calif. 93710 Styles of mllsic are characterized by certain features which e. The song-form reveals a balance between factors of distinguish one style from another. A stylistic feature, when unity and factors of contrast. The most common taken individually - such as unaccompanied singing - is not form IAABA) reveals this balance. (The A's create unique. But when various features are considered collectively, unity and the B, contrast.) The forms AAAA or a musical style is created. ABeD lack this balance. (See "Form" in Barbershop For instance, what is the name of the style which has the Music, pg. 12, May·June, 1974 HARMONIZER.) following features? The above features, then, are the components of the a. Unaccompanied male singing. barbershop style. b. Single texture of vocal line (unison). BARBERSHOP A MUSICAL SPLIT·PERSONALlTY? c. Latin, religiolls texts. One of the interesting, unique and in some ways d. Melodies are often florid (two or more notes per, unfortunate facts about barbershop is our stylistic duality, so syllable). noticeable between "show" barbershop music and "contest" e. Worship music, not concert music. barbershop music. We have developed musical schizophrenia, a f. Melodies organized around tonal centers called modes. musical split-personality, arising from the tug·of-war between g. Melodic range usually less than an octave. forces of tradition and the forces of innovation ;n our Society. You're correct if you answered Gregorian chant. You probably Just as politics is the art of compromise, so is our present noticed that each stylistic component taken separately is not dichotomy of "show" versus "contest" songs/arrangements a unique, but when all seven are combined into a set of features, compromise. The Society's Arrangement Judges, International a style emerges. Office staff and current and past international officers form We could define in the same way Ragtime, Dixieland or the forces of tradition and conservatism, while certain past Progressive Jazz. However, for the present purpose, let's take a international champion quartets, along with various medalist look at that style of music we call barbershop harmony. quartets, chorus directors and coaches,torm the liberal wing. 1. Four-part vocal texture sung unaccompanied. The Arrangement Judges have remained strict in enforcing the 2. At least one harmony part above the melody; sometimes "preservation" part of our hobby, so the liberals give vent to two. their innovative urges by using psuedo-barbershop songs, 3. Avoids non·harmonic tones and minor 2nds or major non-barbershop songs and novelty songs on shows and other 7ths lintervals). public performances. 4. Uses an unusually high percentage of barbershop 7th Show arrangements have more solo passages and are often chords 135% to 60% per song). thinner in musical texture (unison, two·parts andlor 5. Chords are usually in root position or 2nd inversion for three·parts). They are frequently arranged and performed in a optimum acoustical reinforcement of overtones and psuedo-commercial style using devices heard on records, T.V. difference tones. and in night clubs. These show arrangements utilize songs 6. Chords resolve primarily on the circle of 5ths. which are more contemporary ;n mood and sound. Often these 7. Arranging devices ("swipes" and "echos") are used to fill songs have to be manipulated to fit the barbershop style. This in rhythm space. "manipulation" involves "engineering" or "bulldozing" as 8. The songs used in this style have certain characteristics: defined thusly: a. The melodies tend to be "Sol to Sol" rather than "00 FOUR LEVELS OF ARRANGING SONGS to Do." Level one - Harmonizing: A simple four-part harmonic b. The harmonies implied by the melody are conducive setting of a melody wi!hout to a barbershop setting. (See Nos. 4, 5 and 6 above,) fancy arranging devices. c. The meter is usually in three·quarter, four·four or Level Two - Arranging: Creating a Musical vehicle out "cut" time, and offers opportunities for interpretive of a song by the use of license. We avoid triplets, polyrhythms and strong lntros., tags, swipes, key jazz·swing syncopation. changes, etc" keeping intact d. The lyric generally speaks of simpler days and former the song's elements, (melody, ways, emphasizing nostalgia and reminiscence. rhythm, harmony, lyrics and
8 THE HARMONIZER THE GOOD OLD DAYS form). Level Three - Engineering: Slight or moderate alteration WERE NEVER LIKE THIS of one or more of the song's SpOil yourself in stereo with the Dealer's Choice elements. and their new album, "SONGS LIKE DADDY Level Four - Bulldozing: Severe alteration of the song's USED TO PLAY'" A full year in the making, iI's the elements. This technique, finesl engineered Barbershop LP ever produced. We think you'll agree ... The Good Old Days often used by liberal Were Never Like This! arrangers, involves manipulation of the song's basic structure. The song has to be forced into our style. Level 2 (Arranging) tries to adapt a song without manipulating its elements. This is, of course, the real challenge of arranging: to keep intact the composer's basic song. You see, the liberals view the barbershop as a way of harmonizing and voicing the chords of a song. The liberals apply this style (harmony part(s) above the melody, four·part texture, chords in root position or 2nd inversion, etc.) to many songs. Often, though, this application becomes. imposition. That is, the style is imposed on a song, somewhat akin to the fat lady squeezing into a girdle. Often the liberal manipulates one or more of the song's five basic elements (melody, rhythm, harmony, lyrics and form) by altering them to more readily accommodate the style. Album $6.00 B Track $7.00 Casselle $7.00 The liberal applies the style to folk songs, Broadway tunes, Mail check or money order to: Blackjack Productlona, Hollywood songs and current favorites from the Top Forty 4130 Hawthorne No.2, Dallas, Texas 75219. charts, while the conservative claims the song should invite or ICanadlan Order. Add $1.501 beckon the arranger's skills, rather than having a style imposed on it. Songs that "beckon" the arranger usually have most of the attributes described earlier. LISTENER HAS BECOME CONFUSED Our Society has an advantage when it comes to defining our musical style, for "Barbershop" can be whatever we want it to TWO GREAT GIFT ALBUMS be: We (the Society) decide its definition, development and evolution. For a quarter of a century we have tolerated this musical split-personality in order to placate the various creative people in barbershopping. But now, caught in the cross current of innovation merging with tradition, should we be so tolerant in the face of a blurred public irnage of our style? Perhaps it is time to face up to this musical schizophrenia, for how long can we go on proclaiming to "preserve" and "encourage" a certain musical style, when in reality many of our quartets and choruses are barren of any stylistic identity? Just as we cannot subsist on a steady diet of woodshed tiddlies, novelty songs and bulldozed arrangements, so we cannot continue confusing our listeners with a potpurri of Includes: Over There, You're a Grand Old Flag, non-barbershop or pseudo-barbershop songs! Old Man River, Shenandoah, many more by the Ultimately,our public image and our internal musical health depend on the quality of our singing and of our musical repertory. The first step in up-grading our repertory is SOUTHERN GATEWAY CHORUS converting present members to the beauty and potential of the 1973 INTERNATIONAL CHORUS CHAMPIONS barbershop song. We need to find, arrange and perform songs which have lovely melodies and rich harmonic possibilities; $5 POSTPAID - TWO OR MORE $4.75 EACH songs which open memory's veil and sometimes bring a tear; Checks payable Western Hills Chapter SPEBSQSA songs which beckon the arranger to apilly his skills, rather than c/o Cliff Vogel (513)451-2569 songs upon which a style is imposed. 1440 Beachmeadow, Cincinnati, Ohio 45238 We would all feel more pride as Barbershoppers jf we knew Outside USA please add $1 per order there was one stylistic identity which we all promote, rather than two or three; for in the long run that unique species The distribution, sale or advertising of unofficial recordings is called the barbershop song will prove to be the most reliable not a representation that the canlents of such recordings are vehicle on the long journey toward musical excellence, appropriate for contest usc.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1975 9 .4 , HUGH INGRAHAM
You've probably had correspondence with Bob Meyer Columbus, 0., where he had spent a year as the Society's dozens of times and have often wondered what he looks like administrative field representative in the Johnny Appleseed and just what his responsibilities entail at the International District. A Canadian, Ingraham first joined SPEBSQSA in Office. Or is it Bill FitzGerald, the man who always seems to Calgary, Alta. in 1949. He has been an active singer and have the right answers to your phone queries, that YOll'd like administrator ever since. He has sung in the Stampede City to know more about? Maybe you've never had an opportunity Chorus (Calgary); the Winnipeg Chorus; The Singing Buckeyes to meet Executive Director Barrie Best and would like to (Columbus); and the "Mountain Echoes," "Fore·sights," know just what kind of man heads up the entire operation of "Assiniboys" and "Staff Chords" quartets. Prior to joining the the International Office and the Society. Society on a full·time basis, he served as chapter secretary and We hope the following biographical sketches and pictures of president; area counselor; district secretary and international staff employees will give you a closer look at some of the board member. A graduate of Acadia University in Nova people working for yOll. Hopefully, at some later date, we'll be Scotia with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Ingraham's pre· able to take you on a photo tour of Harmony Hall, so that you barbershop career includes agency work, public relations and may become acquainted with the various departments and the radio. He is an accredited member of the Public Relations people who work each day providing the membership with a Society of America. He is married and has four children. wide variety of services. Until that time, though, we hope the Robert D. Johnson is the Society's Director of Music information which follows will give you a better insight into Education and Services. A former director of the 1961 the International Office operation and serve as a means of International Chorus champions, "The ChorllS of the Chesa· introducing some of your staff to you. peake" from the Dundalk, Md. Chapter, he left his post as chairman of the music department of Patterson High School in STAFF DIRECTORS Baltimore in 1962 to assume his new duties at Harmony Hall. Barrie Best, Executive Director of the Society, is responsi· Johnson has studied all musical instruments, plays the piano ble for the day·to·day operation of both the International and has done some arranging and composing. A graduate of Office and each of the individual chapter units in the U.S. and State Teachers College, Indiana, Pa., he holds a Bachelor of Canada. Barrie is a long-time Barbershopper. A former Science Degree in public school music. He earned his Master's Canadian, he first became exposed to quartetting in Winf.1ipeg, Degree in Education at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., and Man. and was a charter member of that chapter in 1948. The served as assistant professor of music at that college for five sunny climes of California soon called, however, and Barrie years. He received an honory Doctor of Music degree in 1970 moved to Temple City where he became deeply involved in the from Dominican College, Racine, Wis. In his present position, Society both as a singer and as an administrator. He has served he is responsible for the Society's music education program on many international study groups, was co-chairman of the which encompasses not only the preparation of singable expansion fund committee, and is a past president of the Far arrangements for quartets and chorllses, but the scheduling Western District. In 1963 he was appointed executive director and staffing of harmony education schools and seminars at key and moved to Kenosha. As a singer, many Barbershoppers will geographical points in the Society as well as individual remember him as the tenor in the "West Coasters," 1957 demonstrations at chapters throughout the United States and second place medalists. Barrie has also directed choruses in San Canada. Much of Bob's time at present is spent making Gabriel and South Bay, Cal. and in Kenosha. Fortunately his presentations to state and local groups of MENC (Music wife Mary Anne is also a true devotee of barbershop harmony Educators National Conference). He has been in the forefront (they met through barbershopping). The Bests have two of bringing barbershop harmony to the high schools through daughters, Leigh Anne and Karen Lyn and one son Richard the cmrent festival system and is constantly working with Barrie. Deeply involved in church work, he is a Bishop in the music educators to promote more barbershop music in their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter·Day Saints. programs. Johnson and his wife reside in Kenosha. They have The Society's Director of Communications is Hugh A. two married children. Ingraham who is in charge of international conventions, public In charge of personnel, office management and all financial relations and the Society's officer training and extension matters is Dallas ~. Lemmen, Director of Finance and programs. Ingraharn moved to Wisconsin in 1963 from Administration. Dallas came to the Society in 1969 after a
10 THE HARMONIZER MA.RGARET YORK
lengthy business career in Michigan and Indiana. Born in he organized the Stevens Point Chapter of the Society, he has Michigan, he holds B.B.A. and M.B.S. degrees from the served as chapter president, area counselor, district treasurer University of Michigan, with majors in accounting and finance. and district president. He has coached several qt/artets and He served in the European theatre during the Second World played clarinet, violin and piano as a high school student. War and was wounded in action. He now counts barber Singing·wise he is a note·reading bari and a woodsheddin' shopping as a hobby, having joined the Kenosha chapter in tenor. Leo resides in Kenosha with his wife Mary and their 1969, but he still finds time for golf, fishing, home remodeling three children, one boy and two girls. and repair, and camping. He is also active in his church and in Sam Kennedy, Field Representative for the Society, travels scouting. Dallas lives in Kenosha with his wife Millie and one the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Ontario, Seneca Land and of their four children. Johnny Appleseed Districts, supervising training schools for COMMUNICATIONS DEPT. chapter and district officers, organizing new chapters and Tom Cogan is the Society's newest field representative. counselling current chapter officers on administrative matters. Cogan works mainly in two areas: starting new chapters in Kennedy is well qualified for the position having served as a communities where there are none and counselling existing chapter officer, area counselor and vice president for the chapters, districts and their officers. His territory comprises Ontario District. A singer as well as an administrator, he was a the Pioneer, Cardinal, IIlinios, Land O'Lakes and Central member of the "Rumble·Seat Raiders," champions of the States Districts. Cogan is well qualified for his position. He Ontario District in 1970 and international competitors in first joined the Society in 1958, and prior to going to work for 1971. Prior to taking his present position, he was an the organization in June, 1974, he held nearly all chapter and engineering sales representative with a miniature zinc die district offices. In addition, he is a veteran quartet singer and casting company in Ontario. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, chorus director. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Kennedy now lives in Kenosha. Vermont, and prior to becoming a full-time staff member he taught mathematics at a private school in Albany, N. Y. Cogan Lloyd B. Steinkamp is a Field Representative for the is married and lives in Kenosha with his wife and five children. Society. His territory includes the Dixie, Sunshine, South· Handling much of the detail work and correspondence western, Far Western and Evergreen Districts. He travels this involved in the Society's administrative field program and vast area supervising training schools for chapter and district chapter and district services is D. William (Bill) FitzGerald, a officers and endeavoring to start chapters. Steinkamp is a Communications Assistant. FitzGerald joined the Society in long-time Barbershopper, having first joined the Society in 1947, and since that time has held almost all chapter, district 1945 in Washington, D.C. Since then he has held most chapter and international offices. He is a past president and secretary and district administrative posts as well as being a well-known of the Northeastern District, and prior to his appointment to arranger, judge, chorus director and quartet singer. He sings the international staff in 1966, he was an international board with one of the Society's better known show quartets, the member and international vice president. A singer as well as an "Oesert Knights," 1957 Far Western District champions and administrator, FitzGerald has Sling bass with the "Melodiers," international competitors in 1958. In addition, for a four-year "Harmony 4" and "Notebtlsters" quartets, He is married, and period, he performed with the "Copperminors" of Phoenix, a he and wife Teddy have three children, two boys and a girt. fine comedy quartet. Prior to taking his present position in Prior to starting work with the Society, FitzGerald had a long 1966, he was a partner in a firm of management consultants in history of successful selling in the New England area. Phoenix. A graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor Leo W. Fobart has been Editor of the HARMONIZER since of Fine Arts degree, Steinkamp also has behind him a very 1964, and as such is responsible for its production and successful and lengthy career in television production at both advertising operations. He came to the Society as associate the local and network level. He is a Navy veteran of both the editor in December, 1961 from his position as assistant Second World War and the Korean conflict. He is married and production manager of a publishing company at Stevens Point, he and his wife have six children. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Wis. Prior to this he had served in an executive capacity for 19 Steinkamp and his family now live in Glendale, Ariz. years with the Soo Line Railroad. A member since 1953, when (Continued on page 34)
NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 1975 11 VOLUME FOUR FROM THE LA~I[) OF SUNSHINE WI~ITER 1975
(The SUNTONES welcome HARMONIZER readers to the everiJrowing afraid to come up and ask. Especially I if you are a tenor. You list of friends receiving their quarterly newslettor.1 have no idea how the other three look forward to that. POLLUTION! HELP! (By Bill) ON THE ROAD (By Bob) In these days of economic depression, pollution has taken I'll attempt to cover some highlights of OUT appearances somewhat of a back seat. Yet, we, who are vocally inclined, during the past six months, We seem to be coming into second are still very much concerned about the precious, little bit of generation Suntonos friends, and a recent highlight was fresh air we now and then inhale. "hearing," or should I say "watching," young Kim Lefholz Some of us are fortunate to be able to live, work and play (daughter of Donna and Gil Lefholz of Kansas City and in areas where industry and heavy traffic haven't taken toll. International Sweet Adeline and barbershop fame) perform But what about indoors? Regardless of where we live or "West Side Story" in perfect pantomine. Words can't describe traverse, we are still confronted with the same smoke·filled it. rooms. Commercial airplanes now have their non-smoking Many thanks for all of the flattering chapter bulletin areas; some states now forbid smoking in close quarters such as articles about the Suntones. Particularly appreciated are kind elevators and places where food is sold. words by Bob Roberts, Editor of WESTUNES, and "Chuck" There still seems to be one place or room, though, where Weeth of the ROUNDUP out Texas-way, naturally. knives and oxygen masks are almost always necessary in order Why is it that Sweet Adeline Chapters often seem better to enter. Where is this place? The "Afterglow," Unfortunately, organized than us Barbershoppers? No nasty notes, pleasel it seems that most rooms which are used for this late evening We were at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in January gathering are not only overly crowded but lack proper for the A & W Root Beer folks who were covening there. We ventilation. Well, there's no law restricting smoking in these wore again mistaken for another quartet. This time by a public rooms, but how considerate it would be of those who limousine driver from down South who was just sure that we must indulge, to use the same type facilities they used at the were the Blackwood Brothers of gospel music fame. auditorium earlier in the evening, such as the lobbY, outer Speaking of gospel music, Terry Franklin (that's my son) is room or the lavatory. Usually, there is sufficient time between lead singer in one of the finest gospel quartets in the business, the performance of each quartet to converse, run to the the TRIBUNES, of Plant City, Fla. They've recorded several watering hole or to indulge. This consideration is not only albums and travel nationwide on a full-time schedule of greatly appreciated by the performing quartets, but also by concert and church appearances. Gene's son, Bruce, is singing those fellow enthusiasts sharing the same table. tenor (what else?) in a similar group while at college in GENE IS .', , BUSYI BUSYI BUSY! (By Gene) Springfield, Mo. Yes, we have been. And the singing schedule this year has Recently sang on a show with a quartet called "Memories been so fast and furious we haven't had time to learn very and Madness." Two of the members are Bob Mack and Forry many new tunes. We're all excited about the new seven- Haynes, tenor and baritone respectively of the "Mid States minute medley we've just put into the act. "SOUND OF Four," 1949 international champs. MUSIC" is the latest chart Walter (Latzko) has done for us and Our whole gang recently toured aboard a top secret nuclear it certainly is a beaut! For yOll folks who've alreadY heard missile submarine, played Captain Nemo with the periscope it ... yes friends, ... that high, soft B natural on the last note and were thoroughly impressed with our U.S_ Navy. is being sung by OLD GOLDEN THROAT, our rubber·voiced We're really looking forward to being a part of "The All baritone. (Better you, than me, Harlanl) Some of the songs in Northwest Barbershop Ballad Contest" in Forrest Grove, Ore. the medley include My Favorite Things, Edelweiss, Sixteen It's put on by the Forrest Grove Gleeman and Girls and is a Going on Seventeen, Clirnb Every Mountain and, of course, city-wide affair. Sound of Music. Good friend Burt Staffen put another California tour I've taken over, once again, as director of the Miamians. together this last August. We sang for the Sacramento, Looks as if I have my work cut out for me ., .1'11 have to butt Oakland and Santa Barbara Chapters and the Arcadia Sweet heads with Harlan and his Palm Beach County Coastmen. Adelines. What a great bunch of Barbershoppers out there. Stand by for a jolt, Wilson I (Is that what you might call a This past Labor Day we tOll red Minnesota with an public challenge?) appearance in the Twin Cities followed by the annual It's always enjoyable to sing with old and new friends and gathering of Barbershoppers at Leech Lake in Walker, Minn. interesting to see how many folks can sing all the right notes The details were arranged by good friends Torn Wickenheiser to their part on one of the songs we sing, If you'd like to try IJnd Otto Ringle. I'll say so long now; we hope to entertain and sing a part with the Suntones, for gosh sakes, don't be you soon. (The above space was paid for Ily tile "Suntones" quartet,) 12 THE HARMONIZER Eight great albums-over 4 hours of pure listening Buy several and savel Any single record album-$6; any two-$11; any three-$15; additional albums-$3 each. pleasure. Here is virtually the entire repertoire of Any single tape-$7; any two-$13; additional tapes-$5 the legendary Suntones. All the songs that have each. Orders are shipped 4th class, please allow 3 to 5 weeks. made them favorites on show stages throughout the barbershop world for years. Broadway songs, r-;-e::-s=me 0 Songbooks at~e:: --- --I contemporary songs, toe-tappers and traditional Please send me the following albums and/or tapes (post paid) I I Canadian orders please add $1.50. barbershop standards are all here for you to enjoy I Mail to Sunrise Records, P.O. Box 15736, W. Palm Beach. Fla. 33406 I for years to come. Can you think of a better way to introduce your children and your prospective I NAME I members to barbershopping? And wait 'til you hear I STAEET I the spectacular "Barbershopping in Brass" by trum peter Roger Blackburn. It's really super. I I With Christmas right around the corner, now's the time to order. 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A LOOK AHEAD Looking ahead to the future, I perceive two issues critical to our continued progress. The first is preservation of the barbershop style of music. This was why we were formed and By Int'l Pres. F. Richard Ellenbergor is our basic objective. Barbershop music is an art form we must 2476 Poersch Ct., Schenectady, New York 12309 protect for the valuable jewel it is and not let it slip away from us. Mathematicians can demonstrate that human perception of To preserve the barbershop style, we must first understand successive time intervals is logarithmic. In more simple words what it is. As Val Hicks points out in his article on page 8, it this means that time seems to pass more quickly as we get has some essential elements but, at the same time, has older. At my age this phenomenon is very noticeable, in fact flexibility and room for innovation. If you don't think that this year it has been noticeable to a ridiculous extent. I can't the style has advanced over the years, just listen to recordings believe, as I write this, that three quarters of the year is past from the early days as compared to those we hear now. and it will soon be over. It seems to me that we must maintain the correct bounds As I reflect on this unforgettable year in my life, there are around the barbershop style while we are preserving and certain things that stand out. First, is the vast number of new advancing it. On the one hand we must keep its essential friends I have made throughout our great Society. There are elements and not try to imitate other musical styles. Some of no friendlier nor finer people in the world than Barbershop our quartets and choruses try to do this at timesj but the result pers. is usually disappointing to listeners. We thereby give the public We've had two great conventions in 1975. The mid-winter an incorrect impression of what barbershop harmony really is in Hawaii was unforgettable, and possibly the forerunner of and how great it can be. On the other hand, we shouldn't set future mid-winters in places where one can combine a vacation overly-restrictive and stereotyped bounds that take away the with barbershopping. The Indianapolis convention was out opportunity to be creative, exciting and entertaining. standing. Conventions are getting bigger and better. Washing The other critical issue is music education. Great strides ton, D.C. and San Francisco should both be super. have been made in this area from which we all benefit. My The new Sound category was introduced in 1975, and will concern here is that we use it (music education) to increase the continue the improvement that has been underway in our barbershop singing abilities of al/ members, and not just those contest and judging system. who already are competition caliber singers. Our goal should Harmony Services, Inc., a wholly owned for-profit corpo be to improve the musical performances of all quartets and ration, was set up and incorporated. By the time you read this choruses appearing in public, the vast majority of which are at we may be the owner of an additional building in Kenosha the local level. The public will then be treated to good which will relieve overcrowding at Harmony Hall and will barbershop music, and we will get more enjoyment out of am provide facilities for producing substantial non-dues income. singing. Progress has been made in music education and in quartet We should have a great year in 1976 with Plummer Collins ting at the chapter level, where it counts most. The Basic at the helm. Plummer's head is screwed on straight, and he is Barbershop Craft Manual is being put to good use, and quartet probably the best organized man in the entire Society_ jamborees are providing many members, who never before This has been a most enriching year to me. I'll be looking have sung in a quartet, the opportunity to do so. The addition forward to woodshedding a few with you in the future. of Joe Liles to our staff will give our music education program a boost. INTERNATIONAL The Young Men In Harmony program accelerated during CONVENTION the year. More and more barbershop music is being s~ng and enjoyed by high school boys. BIDS Participation in our international SERVICE PROJECT,the NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE Institute of Logopedics, continued at a pace 9% higher than 1980 INTERNATIONAL CONVEN· last year. ... TlON. DEADLINE DATE, FEB. 1,1976 We reached a membership of 36,000 for the first time In our history. The special program on external public relations has been most effective in getting the word to people who don't know Contact: Hugh A. Ingraham, Director of about us. (I'll always treasure the telegram I received from Communications, SPEBSaSA, Inc., Box President Gerald Ford at Indianapolis, which was just one 575, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141 result of this program.)
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Rudy Vallee may well have been their first self-proclaimed fan way back in 1929, when he sang his hit song, "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover." And now (after almost 47 years in the making) ) Vagabond Lovers everywhere can enjoy the much talked about sound of this quartet on a ~ ,.)" \i'LJ.. 1' new stereo album release. ·'f·· "1 ~ The Vagabo';ds .r 1975INTERNATION/\l MEDALISTS ------Please send me, postpaid, __ copies of the new stereo album, "Just for , . Vagabond Lovers" at $6.00 each. (Canadian orders please add $1 ,00.) I enclose check (or money order) totalling $ , made payable to: Featuring: vVho's In The Strawberry Patch \<\Iith THE VAGABONDS Sally/If Wc Can't lle The Same Old Sweethearts (P"oN..e ....IoN3·$ Week Deli..ay) (Wc'lI Just lle The Samc Old Friends)/Open Your Name _ Arms I\.'y Alabamy/The lillie lloy/Song Of The South/All Aboard For Dixieland/M.y Baby Just Cares Address _ For Me/Do You Really Really love Me/Time, Time/ They Go Wild Simply Wil NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1975 15 BARBERSHOPPERS: Last of the Great Lovers By Bernio Brohaugh. 1034 S. 34th, Lincoln, Neb. 68510 Remember when you fell in love with good ole "what's her cases there is the desire to share an experience, to contribute name?" You couldn't eat, or sleep, or think of anything but .all that one can towards the achievement of an end that is as her smile, her voice, her touch and the cute way she wiggled nearly perfect as possible. There is, moreover, an eagerness to her nose - like the little pet rabbit you gave her for Easter. cooperate fully in creating something profoundly beautiful, You were ecstatic and miserable at the same time - and something that expresses the noblest, most valuable part of slightly bewildered that others simply found you pathetic or man. While today's highly competitive world sets us so just plain ridiculous. Because the truth - the terrible and frequently at odds with one another, it is heartening to see wonderful truth, that only you seemed aware of - was that people working together in an activity that emphasizes above you would love this girl forever. all else their common humanity. Instinctively attuned to a And maybe you did. But most likely you pulled yourself spirit of brotherhood, Barbershoppers are moved strongly to together in a month or two, ending temporarily, at least, this work together for the betterment of themselves and of their poignant and powerful obsession that once seemed unshak world. In the first place, we sing not alone, by ourselves, but able. Chances are, however, you've never forgotten the way together, in choruses of from 25 to 200 members. The bigger you felt. And most likely you never will. the group, the better we like it. Second, our organization If that is true, and the "you" in this description seems quite composed of more than 36,000 men in the United States and familiar, you will appreciate one of the basic traits of the Canada - will soon include members from Britain, and ulti typical Barbershopper: he, too, is obsessed. Although, as a mately, no doubt, other countries of the world.'Third, local rule, he eats well and sleeps well (except when he finds three chapters are often deeply involved in community projects to fellow songsters to harmonize with half the night), he may which they may contribute time, money and talent in order to frequently be heard humming the old songs or adorning the make life a little brighter for others. In addition, all Barber· new ones with swipes and tags and other barbershop embellish· shoppers everywhere help support the Institute of Logopedics ments. Allured by a power greater than the collective charms in Wichita and in less than ten years we have raised more than of 50 "what's her names," the Barbershopper does not quickly $1,000,000 for this institution devoted to the treatment of recover his equilibrium, if he recovers at all. In fact, as the those suffering from serious speech problems. years go by, his condition usually gets worse. To indulge WE'RE SOLID CITIZENS himself fully in his obsession is his notion of perfect bliss, and Last, Barbershoppers usually make excellent husbands and he could think of no finer way to spend eternity than to sing fathers (most wives don't really mind if their husbands spend his part perfectly in the Paradise Chorus of the Society for the an occasional night out with the boys - do they?), as well as Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet considerate neighbors and concerned citizens of their com Singing in America. munities and of the world. This is most important, for right Again, like the lover, the Barbershopper is sentimental. He now, above all else, we need good citizens of the world. At a is nostalgic. He reminisces. If you were never able to forget time when the craze for material gain has isolated too many of "what's her name" neither was he - whether he called her us in personal selfishness and greed; at a time when we are Mary, or Rose, or Peggy, or Adeline. Nor can he forget the obtrusively and dangerously ignorant of ourselves and, conse Oldsmobile he courted her in, or the Sunday picnics in the quently, of others; at a time when our admiration for park, or the old hometown way back when, or any of the technology is exceeded only by our careless indifference other turn-of-the·century Americana that he so often sings towards ethics, religion and the arts - there are people, about. Even if he was born too late to have known any of including many Barbershoppers, who still understand the these experiences at first hand, he understands that the most meaning of mutual respect and good will. There are people important part of a memory is not the event that it came from who may love beauty for its own sake, and who may pursue it but the longing that keeps it alive. So, to him, borrowed for no other reward than the indescribable joy - and pain memories are in no way inferior to those acquired in the that it alone can bring, people who can be at peace with the normal way. world because they have learned to be at peace with LOVERS ARE SINGERS themselves. This, in fact, is what living is all about, and no one Finally, like all lovers of every description, the Barber knows it better or feels it more keenly than a Barbershopper. shopper knows that in order for his world to be complete, he The harmony he cherishes, then, is the harmony of life ... and needs other people. While it takes only two to make love, it beauty ... and love. Yes, Barbershoppers are indeed the last of takes at least four to sing barbershop harmony; but in both the great lovers. 16 THE HARMONIZER Saitta's Siltg-Out BARBERSHOPPERS' PRESENTS HARMONI2E YOUR WALL The barberpole (5" x 18") and oval quartet plaque (10" x 16") are cast in handsome simulated wood, so authentlc·looklng you'd swear they were hand-carllod. Beautiful wall decorations for any room. MUGS FOR ALL SEASONS (A, B, C) Barberpole (58111 511.95 A hearty trio perfect for drinks, gift-gl...1ng or decoration. COFFEE Quartet Plaque (58121 514.95 MUG (A). With Its man-sized handle and 3-color Society emblem, It's great for coffee breaks. STEIN (B). Handsome, 20 oz. white ceramic stein with three-color, dlshwasher·proof, fired Society emblem will quench the biggest thirst. The stein also makes an eye-catching addition to your trophy shelf. SHAVING MUG (e). This modern version of the old·time shaving mug sports a 3·color Society emblem. Ideal for the big coffee drinker, (A) (5866) $2.25; (B) (5838) $4.50; (C) (5836) $3.75 CROSS- THE FOOTED MUG BEST Well equipped to handle any drink order. Here's a mug, made of quality milk glass that would make any Barbershopper proud. 5849 $2.50 Theso superb sets are products of Cross, manufacturers of America's finest writing Instruments. Perfectly balanced and guaranteed for a LIFETIME, the pen and pencil ara enhanced by an attached SocIety emblem. Gold {585BI $28.50 Chrome (5859) $16.50 A. SPEBsaSA WINDBREAKER Handsome, unlined warm-up jacket. Raglan sleeves, full snap button front, slash pockets, drawstring waist and elastic push-up sleevos, 100% nylon, soil resistant. S, M, L, XL GREAT WEARABLES (5892) Navy (5893) Red (5894) Orange $10.50 B. MY GRAND DAD T·SHIRT (Child) A Grand Dad will be proud as punch to seo the kids wearing this. 100% cotton t-shirt trimmed In navy. Sizes XS (2-4), S (6·8), M (10-12), L (14-16). (58061 $2.50 F C. MV DAD T-SHIRT (Child and Adult) What kid (or adult) CQuid resist this color-trimmed 100% cotton t-shlrt with Its proud announcement. Youth sizes: XS (2-4), S (6-8), M (10-12), L (14-16). (5887) $2.50. NOW AVAILABLE in ADULT sIzes S, M, L. Trimmed in orange. (5004) $3.25. D, SWEATER Luxurious long sleeve, V-neck sweater of 50% creslan acryllc 50% rayon. Light touch; soft feol. Rich, non-fading colors last through countless washings, S, M, L, XL. (5a8a) Navy (588S) Red (5890) Green (58911 Electric Blue. $7.95 E E. KEEP AMERICA SINGING SWEATSHIRT (Adult) A two-color Socioty logo makes this short-sleeve raglan sweatshirt a stand-out. Sizes: S, M, L, XL. (5851) White (5903) Orange $5.25 F. MY DAD'S SWEATSHIRT (Ch;ld) This short-sleeve raglan modol will provide long wear in a warm cotton/acrYlic blend. Sizes: S (6-81. M (10-12), L (14-16). (5807) Navy (5808) Powder Blue $4.25 G. KEEP AMERICA SINGING SWEATSHIRT (Ch;ld) The kids will love this long-sleeve raglan sweatshirt in a rugged, warm cotton/acrylic blend. Youth sizes: XS (2-4), S (6-8), M (10-12). L (14-16) (5886) White (5874) Orange (No XS available in Oran e) $4.50 SDCIETY TIES No Barbershoppor's wardrobe Is complete without one or more of these handsome 3-Y, Inch wide Society ties. This Culanna tie has the Socloty emblem woven into the material for that extra quality and durability. 1(5872) Navy Blue (5873) Green (5875) Maroon Two tone Blue (5910) Two-tone Brown (5901) Black wIRed Emblem (5002) $7.25 HIT THE BEACH! TRAVEL in STYLE Available in four different sizes - oven You'll be the hit of the beach with this one for the ladles - your Socloty garment large (36" x 70"), fluffy towel with a bags are indispensable travel accessories. delightful four-color design by "Bub" (5895) Single Suiter - white $325 Thomas, bass of the Dapper Dans of (5896) Single Suiter - white Xl $3.50 Dlsneywortd. Great as a wall hanging, tool (5856) Two Suitor - blue $3.75 (5a6S) $7.25 (5857) Three Suiter - Black $5.25 HAPPINESS IS ... T-SHIRT (Adult and Child) HAPPINESS IS, .. T-SHIRT BOLO TIE 100% cotton with four-color For that casual Barbershop evening design. Adult Sizes S, M, L, XL choose this handsome bolo tie Youth Sizes XS, " featuring a large emblem in heavy (59061 $3.25 S. M. L (5005) $2.75 metal base. (5681) $3.95 B A A. PENDANT INTAGLIO EMBLEM RING EARRINGS FOR THE LADY A traditional favorite among women. (6724) The ultimate In emblematic Jewelrv for You'll be proud to show her off with these $3.50 Barbenhoppers. this massive 10K gold ring beautiful pierced (14 carat post) or screw-on B. OUARTET NECKLACE/BROOCH features the Society emblem in a hand earrings. Both styles feature dainty 3-color This delightful quartet comes In gold or sliver some Intaglio sottlng. Please specify size enameled emblems. and Is available in brooch form. when ordering; allow six weeks for de (A) Pierced (5752) $5.75 Necklace (5762) Gold (5763) Rhodium $5.76; livery. (5694) $110 (B) Screw-on (6761) $5.00 Brooch 167641 Gold (5765) Rhodium $3.76 TIE CHAIN Expands to fit any tie. 166311 Gold (5632) Silver 84.25 KEY CLIP Handy, safe, key clip that not only holds many keys but is flat, and easy on pockets. Gold (66891 $3.95 TIE TAC AND CUFF LINKS They're new and they'ro popular. Enameled tie SILVER TIE TAC tac and cuff links in your singing voice of either Large 3/4" diameter tie taco ((66091 TIE TAC barl, bass, tenor or lead. Please state part 81.95 Enameled Tie Tee In three colors. (6608) desired when ordering. Cuff links (6695) $4S0; GOLD TIE TAC 82.26 Tie Tac (56911 $1.95 Small 1/2 inch diameter tie taco (5610) 5696 Set 86.00 81.60 MONEY CLIPS IA 8< C) Tho ever popular money clip. Keep your money snug and safe with either of these two clip designs. CUFF LINKS A (66601 Small Emblem $3.00 or C (6680) Large Emblem These f100tlng action cuff link sots are In 82.50 an unusual and handsome desIgn. The Society emblem actually appears to be KEY CHAIN (B) suspended In mld·alr Inside 8 brilliant This snake key chain sports a largo emblom sot In a gold· oval of gold or silver. (5667) Gold {66GB I finished case. Silvar $7 .76 B A AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES IA.B.C.O.I Let the whole world know you're a Barbershopper - and proud of It - with these decorative accessories. c IAI AUTO EMBLEM. This colorful emblem mounts on your car's trunk (or olsewhere) as a most attractive symbol of your Society membership. (60091 $1.60 (B) and (e) LICENSE PLATES. These handsome platos ere avail able In the full 6" )( 12" sizo (e) or for states that require front plates In 8 4" x 12" model (B) complete with metal attachment devIce to permit attachment above or below state plate. IBI 1500614" X 12"$1.50; (CI (6007) 6" x 12" $1.95 D (0) LICENSE PLATE FRAME. Dress up your license plate with this handsome SPEBSaSA frame. (50101 $1.60 oach AFTER SHAVE What Barbershopper wouldn't enjoy the A groat-looking glass Barberpole decanter filled with Avon's WILD COUNTRY NEW aftershave. (58101 S3.95 QUARTET SOAP Add a little harmony to your bath room or kitchen with our bath bar PITCH and shower ball. French-milled soap with quartet design that lasts as long The sIgn and symbol of barbershop· as the SOap. (A) Beth Bar (58501 $1.25; ping, No Society member ever wants IBI Showor Boll1684BI $2.96 to be caught without his own F·F pitch pipe, so now Is the time to or der one. If you already have one pipe, why not become a "two pipe family" or at least perk up your present model with a few of our fino pipe accessories. (5603) Pitch Pipe $4.25; (5601) Em· blem $1.75; (5805) Note Selector $.75; (5804) Plastic Pouch $1.75 Pitch Pipe Package (All of above) 5816 S8.00 NORMAN ROCKWELL'S SHARP HARMONY The perfect addition to any Barborshoppor's home or oHice Is this Norman Rockwell print. Avallablo either framed or plain CASSETTE RECORDER canvas sheet. Since Its Introduction, the cassette recorder has rapidly become the (5469) Canvas Sheot Indlspansable companion of many, Many Barbershoppers. Aside from Its $1.95 great entertainment value, the recorder Is, without a doubt, the most (5470) Framed Walnut effective teaching aid ever devised to assist Barbershoppers In learning their $4.95; words and music. (5471) framed Black $4.95 This advanced Panasonlc model RQ·309S Is loaded with desirable features: triple source power (AC/batterles/cor), built·ln mlcrophono, automatic record level, and convenient push·button operation. This Panasonlc cassette recorder Is the Idoel Christmas gift for any Barbershopper and one he'll constantly use and appreciate. (5660) $42.95 ma~be the reason wh~ ~ou dont have ife insurance is-- ~ou think its too expensive• ... Today everything is expensive -- food, clothing, a new car -- but not S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.'s Group Life Insurance. Through your membership you can purchase up to $50,000 of life insurance at low group rates. Because of your membership in S.P. E.B.S.Q.S.A. you have an economical way to update your present life insurance cov erage by taking advantage of low group association rates. HERE'S HOW S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A.'S GROUP LIFE PROGRAM WORKS ••• • All members under age 60 may enroll in this • Waiver of premium in the event of permanent program and may also insure their spouses and and total disability. children. • Only exclusion is suicide during the first 2 years • $10,000; $20,000; $30,000; $40,000; $50,000 of coverage. benefit for yourself. • Automatic coverage at no additional cost, for all • $2,500 benefit for your spouse. children born after effective date of insurance if your other children are covered. • up to $1,000 benefit for each child. Yes, I would like complete information on the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. $50,000 Group Life Insurance Program. Name Oate of Birth _ Address _ City State Zip'-- _ These other fine plans of insurance protection are also available to you through your membership. For information, simply check the appropriate boxes: o Disability Income Protection o Major Medical Insurance o Hospital Indemnity Plan o Excess Major Medical Insurance o Group Cancer Insurance o Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance Mail to: James Group Service,Inc. S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Insurance Administrators 230 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606 (Advertisement paid by James Group Service, Inc,) § with the"Schmitts" Our Championship Year By Joe Schmitt, tenor, 1951 Int'l Champion "Schmitt BrotI1015," 2831 - 35th St., Two Rivers, Wis. 54241 (Tilis is the second of five ;l1stalll1lelits covering the highlights cHId experiences ofour oldest actilJe ill/emational champion foursome, tile "Sc/uuitt Brothers, 11 1951 chal1lpioHs.) After singing the night away, we witnessed our first Sunday morning we flew to New York and reported to the sunrise as international champions on June 10, 1951. We had theater where we were to rehearse. There truly was a great to hurry to get in a cOllple hours of sleep, go to mass and get amount of excitement in being part of something that is put back to sing at the Sunday morning breakfast. By that time we together for a single performance. In all of our practice leading were so tired and excited we decided to go home on Mondav, to the contest, never did we have a single performance in June 11 tho We celebrated Paul's birthday during the train trip mind, and this whole new view of entertainment really amazed home. us. As our train pulled into Sheboygan at about 6:30 in the That afternoon the famed "Chordettes" came to see us, for evening, we were amazed to see a crowd of people standing at Past Int'l President "King" Cole had told them we were going the station. The train conductor said, "Hey, that crowd is to be in New York. They invited us to be in the audience at calling for you. You are the 'Schmitt Bros.,' aren't you!" We the Arthur Godfrey radio program (where they were singing) stepped off the train to see all our Sheboygan friends, and the Monday morning. After learning we had won the champion train waited for us as we sang a couple of songs. We got back ship, he invited us to sing on his program. It was at that point on the train for those 28 miles to Manitowoc, which went by that we had our first introduction to the union. When the so rapidly because we were so busy talking about how great it show was over, we had to join the union for one day so we was to have people come to the station and want you to sing could be paid. Our dues were about half of what we had for them. earned. Then it was back on the plane and home to Two Then we arrived in Manitowoc. More than 2,000 people had Rivers. It was our first trip of any length without our wives, come to the station to welcome us. The band was also there to and so it was great fun to get back home. meet us. We were so excited that it's hard to remember how OUR FIRST SHOW AS CHAMPS we got into the convertibles that drove us the seven miles to With thoughts of the big city still fresh in our minds, we Two Rivers' Central Park. There we found a welcoming received an invitation from the Mia, Mich. Chapter to appear committee waiting on the bandstand. They presented our on their show. This brought about our first ferryboat ride as Mother with a bouquet of roses. We sang and we cried. But we we crossed Lake Michigan (from Manitowoc to Ludington, were home! Mich.), and then motored across the state to little Mia. They HOME AT LAST didn't have a hotel or motel, so a local Barbershopper gave us We walked down the hill the two blocks from Central Park his house for the weekend. It was so much fun to have these to Mother's house. We sat around, had coffee, still not really people treat us like family. Although that was 25 years ago, believing everything that had happened to us. they (the people of Mia) have always held a special spot in our Tuesday was supposed to be a normal working day, and it hearts. We have since learned, though, that Mia Barbershop was until we received a phone call from New York pers were not different, but just typical Barbershoppers. City: "Would the quartet appear on the Ed Sullivan Show?" On the way home from Mia, we decided that we wanted to Milwaukee, back in 1951, was the only television outlet in the perpetuate the quartet and that we ought to incorporate. So in state and, consequently, there really wasn't a great deal of September of 1951, "Schmitt Bros., Inc." was chartered under interest in doing the television show. But we quickly said, Wisconsin Statutes. This was not a mistake. It has been a firm "Yes, we'd love to appearl" foundation and an easy way to resolve some of the problems The 7th of July found us on the way to New York City that have caused other quartets to break up. Our fifth man, making our first flight ever. New York was having weather brother Ray, was our Secretary. problems so we landed in Washington, D.C. It seems like I'm sure you have noticed the picture with this article. It yesterday that Jim was poking Joe in the ribs and pointing out was given to us during the month of August, when the Two all the lights he could see in our great Capitol as we were Rivers Chamber of Commerce put on a dinner for us, and as a landing. Joe was so scared of being sick that he offered to climax, pulled the curtain on this larger-than-Iife size picture. paste Jim in the face if he didn't keep quiet! The airlines Our Mother was so proud she decided she would have to learn quartered us at the Hay Adams House, and we got our first how to hide her pride before it became sinful to the point it look at the White House across the street. might ultimately put her in hell! 22 THE HARMONIZER In February we were able to make our first appearance at the Minneapolis show. It was a great thrill to be part of this charity (University Heart Research Fund) which that chapter has contributed to these many years, In February, we also had our first opportunity to sing for a large corporation, when the Ford Motor COrYlpany invited LIS to entertain at one of their meetings. Then came a trip south. We sang at Oklahoma City where we truly rubbed elbows with some of the founders of the Society, We sang the night away while we learned some of the basic "philosophies" of these barbershop pioneers. On Sllllday morning we sang at four separate Sunday School h (J! classes for one of the large Baptist Churches. FIRST THREE·SHOW WEEKEND In October of that year we received an invitation from the A short time later we sang our first three-show weekend, National Safety Coullcil to sing at their annual dinner at what and we did it with the "Buffalo Bills." On Friday night we was then the Stevens Hotel in Chicago. This kind of thrill, sang at Springfield, Mo, on Saturday night at Kansas City and although it's been repeated many times since, has never lost its Sunday afternoon at Jefferson CitY,Mo. We remember the appeal. To think that we could share with those 3,000 people Friday night Springfield show because in those days we the flln we had singing together, and having them say "thank Catholics weren't eating meat on Fridays. But one of the local you" with their applause, leaves an indelible mark on the chapter members said, "You can eat meat today - it's memory of the performer. Washington's Birthday!" We wanted to believe him, but we WE'LL SAY "THANKS" MANY TIMES called and checked with a local priest, who told us, "When Later in October we made our first visit to Constitution you're in Rome, you do as the Romans do. Enjoy your steak Hall in Washington, D.C. I hope we don't sound insincere tonight." And we did! when we tell YOll that each of these instances, as they February slipped into March, and during that month we happened to liS, was a great SOLJrce of happiness and pride. sang in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Pennsylvania. We There is no better way to express gratitude than to say thank did the Pittsburgh show with our great friends, the "Pitts· you, and we would like to do it often as we write these burghers," It was fun to sing on a show with all these quartets articles, which we really respected. They all seemed genuinely sincere We went back to our Land O'Lakes District contest the first in extending the hand of friendship and welcoming us to that weekend in November. It was a unique experience as we rode a exclusive fraternity of international champions. train that "backed" into Eau Claire, Wis. We were to have a There were no April showers for us, for we were flying high charter plane take us to Peoria the next day, We had to use above them, We went to Des Moines, la., and received a typical two small planes because one wasn't big enOllgh to carry mid-western welcome. And then on to Detroit, then the us - and before we landed, Fran and Joe had both "baptized" Society headquarters, where we did a three-quartet show on a their new tweed top coats! Tuesday evening along with "Mid-States Four" and the In the month of November we went to Buffalo, N.Y. and "Buffalo Bills," We each made an appearance in the first half did our first show with the "Buffalo Bills." It was a special and then again in the second half. The audience picked up the thrill to do a performance with this truly great quartet. And excitement that was on stage, for although each of liS had won here it was December already, and life was going by so fast. We the championship, we were all trying to win it again that night. have since learned not to accept too many shows during the OUR YEAR WAS NEARLY OVER month of December, as in that first December we did 14 Then came those May flowers and all of a sudden the shows! We sang midnight mass at the chapel at Holy Family realization that our championship year was almost over. We Hospital in Manitowoc that year, a tradition we've repeated had ordered new uniforms and were excited about appearing every year since, on our own chapter show - this time as international champi· OUR VOICES WERE TIRED ons. One of the great thrills has been to sing at home. Our We were in trouble in January because our voices were family and neighbors expect a lot from us sometimes, but they tired. Joe had taken voice lessons from Mary M. Gruber while never fail to respond in a most appreciative manner whenever he was going to Marquette, We called Mary and asked her if we sing for them. she had room for us. She offered to teach us the techniques of It had been a banner year for our Mother, who was not vocal production. One of our favorite inside jokes is that Miss only thrilled with the fOUT of us singing so beautifully together Grllber is the only person we ever paid to abuse us. She still is that we could go on stage, but also marvelled at the fact we a great influence on the quartet, and, hopefully, we remember were able to get along with one another so well! On the 17th the things she tried to teach us. of May we did a show in Wauwatosa, and without our knowing There was no let up during January, though. It was back to it, they had invited Mother to the show. At almost the middle the great state of Michigan; up to Toronto for the mid-winter of our performance, the MC interrupted us. They pulled back meeting; down to southern Illinois and then back to Wisconsin a traveler and rolled forward this lovely lady, enshrined in a for a show in Green Bay. We took the train to Toronto and it chair twice her size. They presented her with roses while we was our first trip in a sleeper. It really was great fun, and while sang Johnnie Means' arrangement of That Wonderful Mother we stayed at the Hotel in Toronto, we ordered steak of Mine. It was as great a thrill for us as it was for her. We sandwiches, When we got the bill and saw that the sandwiches believe that it was at that moment that she made up her mind were $5 each, we knew we weren't in Two Rivers! (Continued on page 34) NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 1975 23 By Ken McKee Send bulletins, ideas and pictures to: 713 S. Weatherre 24 THE HARMONIZER WHAT'S THE LOGO CLUB? AFTER EACH CHAPTER responsible for calling everyone on your roster. Another way is MEETING, a jolly fellow is usually standing by the door of the to have one man from each section call the men in his section. Binghamton, N.Y. meeting hall ringing a bell and collecting The best plan we've heard, though, is the progressive system coins in his little sack. At first one might think Christmas must which starts with the president calling two members, each of be approaching, but Binghamton Barbershoppers know that whom calls two more and then these men call two additional this fellow represents something unique, their Logo Club. The men, etc. The whole job is done quickly and no one is too chapter shOLild have little trouble reaching the International burdened. In case one man cannot be reached, that caller goal of $10 per member per year. Little by little and bit by bit becomes responsible for those calls, so the chain is not broken. it can be done as this outstanding chapter has learned. One of A chart listing all your members is the best way to make this our northern chapters purchased a fifty-cent gift. It was then work I raffled with chances sold to members at 10 cents each. The MOST OF OUR CHAPTERS ARE USING NAME BADGES winner then pledges to produce a gift for the next meeting. supplied from our International Office at our chapter meet With this going on from week to week, a chapter should realize ings, There still is a question, though, about what part each a neat sum for Logopedics at year's end. man sings. The Dallas "Big 0" Chapter has solved the problem. HAVING PROBLEMS GETTING YOUR MEETING Each insert with the member's name is printed on different STARTED or getting your members back in their seats after colored paper; so if you are looking for a tenor, just look for a the break? John Moore of the Daytona Beach, Fla. Chapter fellow with a blue badge, yellow for lead, etc. I wouldn't mind reminds us nothing stops talking like a little singing. He seeing this idea used at our International Conventions, What suggests that your chapter use a "singing gavel" .,. Daytona do yOll think? Beach uses a special song but any song will do! HOW ABOUT A BLIND DRAW QUARTET CONTEST? MANY OF OUR CHAPTERS HAVE BEEN SEARCHING Just have four containers, each marked with one voice part, set for different ways to transport their costumes, uniforms risers, up as you enter your meeting hall. Those wishing to etc. We have learned from reading chapter publications that participate will write their name on a slip and drop it into the the easiest way out is to buy a trailer. Steve Pastrick informs appropriate container. You don't necessarily have to enter us that his Alle-Kiski, Pa. (JAD) Chapter recently solved this your own part if you think you can handle another. Names are equipment-transport problem in a unique way. They pur then drawn from each container, the first four names will be chased a used U.S. Postal Service vanl They then had a group known as quartet No.1, etc. The quartets are then sent out to project of sanding and repainting, so now in addition to rehearse a song of their choosing, Non-participants are the getting their risers, sound system and other props around very judges, You'll get to hear some interesting combinations and conveniently, they are a traveling billboard for their chapter have fun while you're doing it. WHAT ABOUT SHARING YOUR IDEAS? Surely you, or AllE'KISKI CHORUS -fUiill someone in your chapter, has some new idea or method of \\ '@ ~ ALLE'I\lSI\1 ~ -- _ 8AR8E~SHOPC~Oi,S operation you'd like to pass on to fellow-Sarbershoppers. Just ~ ''','', -,~," " drop a note to Ken McKee (see address on page 24) with • ". 8.p.E.8.S.Q,S,A. AA complete details and pictures if they're available, lrHHEHJ!l . vJ SAN FRANCISCO CONVENTION REGISTRATION ORDER BLANK Date_~ _ International Office, S.P,E.B,S.a,S,A., Inc. Box 575, Konosha, Wisconsin 53141 and the Society, The van was purchased at an auction (sealed bids) for $200 and has paid for itself many times over in Gentlemen: convenience, Steve tells us that we should check with the local Enclosed is check for $ for which please Issue: postmaster for information on location of such auctions. If _ Adult Registration @ $25.00 ea._ Junior Registration @ your bid doesn't make it at the first crack, don't despair; just $15.00 (18 and under) for myself and my party for the 38th get in on the next one. Wouldn't you like to see a van like this Annual Convention and International Contests at San Francisco, California on July 5-10, 1976, I understand that the registration parked out in front of your meeting place or at your next fee includes admission to official events; a reserved seat at singout? It's a great way to get some free publicity, all contest sessions; a registration badge and a souvenir program; HOW ABOUT A MAP SHOWING WHERE YOUR MEM· free shuttle bus service between the headquarters hotel and the BERS LIVE? This is what the San Diego Chapter uses to contest site. I clearly understand that registrations are trans· promote car pools, quartets and octets. It's easy to do ... just ferable but not redeemable. PLEASE get a small map of your area from a gas station or your NAME ~PRINT chamber of commerce and pin point the general location of DISTINCTLY your membership, Type in their names and you've got the job ADDRESS done, You might have the chapter bulletin editor publish the finished product in his next issue. (City) (State or Province) (Zip Codo) IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED FROM TIME TO TIME that every chapter should have a phone committee, yet one CHAPTER _ wonders how many chapters have set up this simple aid. Here's one way to do it, Have three or four of your members Make chock payable to "SPEBSaSA" NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1975 25 THE WAY I SEE iFf Just Keep It Basic By Nickolas C. Romano, 105 Rose St., Longmont, Colo. 80501 Aspiring Barbershoppers who want to make it to the top was the chords in the old favorite arrangement were good too, might do well to pay attention to some sage advice from the and they were there so as to let the melody line predominate, famous Mills Brothers, who celebrated their 50th successful Here, the message is, once again, quite clear: keep it basic. year in show business in September. There are qualified arrangers in our Sodety who know what While their advice is aimed at all musicians, it is especially they're doing, and who will help rearrange a song if it needs to fitting for Barbershoppers. Following are excerpts from an be done. Butchery of the basic barbershop style is the wrong article in the Rocky Mountain News written by Coillmnist Pat way to get applause. Since most of our audiences love our Hanna, who interviewed Donald Mills, a member of the style, why not leave it alone? veteran singing group: "Stick to basics. Get a lyric that tells a FOUR MIKES UNNECESSARY story, put it to a simple melody, give it your own interpreta On the microphone(s) bit, There are great quartets which tion - and anything that turns out to be good, stay with ... use more than one mike, The "Suntones" come to mind, "Simplicity of what we do has been the key to Ollr success ... because they are so outstanding. They've been singing this way (with individual mikes) for years, and have mastered the art. "We just sing the melody as it's written. That keeps it simple ... Personally, I'd still like to hear them sing with jllst one mike. Once again, let me draw on experience. A quartet singing "We lIse one mike; it's much easier to blend voices on one on a recent show was using four mikes. There was speaker mike. To me, it's stupid to add to your problems by using feed-back, inordinate loudness and terrific treble to the point several mikes and depending on the man in the sound booth to get your sound .. , where their performance was lousy, This foursome had seen "Proper balance of the voices is all in the mind. If we hear the "SlIntones" do it, so they figured they'd try it too. each other, we can blend with each other. If the mikes are Here, then, was a good quartet coming across to an clear across stage, we can't hear each other, and we have to audience as a loud, out-of-tune, out-of balance singing group have an artificial blend from the control booth. Those groups of Barbershoppers. As I left the auditorium, I heard someone with 15 mikes have problems with so many gimmicks. All say, "If that's barbershop, who needs it?" We sholiid realize they're doing is distorting what they're singing. Musically it's that people corne to our shows to hear basic barbershop good, if they'd jllst tone it down ..... harmony, and anything that distorts it ought to be thrown From these words of wisdom comes a message worth out. Using one mike is keeping it basic. listening to, and the message is simple: keep it basic! The final item goes along with the first two. If you've SIMPLICITY GONE found something good, stick with it. Audiences in general In the past few months, I've attended barbershop shows want our best performance. In fact, they demand it from any where the /Jin thing" has been complexity. Distortion of the performer. They pay to see and hear us do the things we do best. Mahalia Jackson (Lord rest her sOlll) was one of the melody line, use of four or more microphones, modern chords, greatest gospel/spiritual singers ever, and she gave her audi etc. seem to be creeping into our performances. I, for one, don't like any of it. ences what she did best. Sure, she sang some contemporary songs, but her forte was gospel/spiritual songs, and that's what Mr. Mills hits on all of these areas in his words: (1) "sing she put forth more often than not. the melody as it's written; (2) lise one mike; (3) anything that turns out to be good, stay with." BASIC BARBERSHOP OUR "BAG" Let's talk plainly abollt each of these items. First, the We do basic barbershop harmony best. Listen to a great melody line, and how to use it, I'm sure we've all read Lloyd quartet, and you'll generally hear what you carne to hear Steinkamp's article on the barbershop style I"So YOLI Change basics. the Melody a Note or Two - 'Zat a Crime?", pg. 12, There is a place for the modern sound, but it isn't on a Mar.-April, 1974 HARMONIZER) and the arrangement cate barbershop show. When I hear a quartet sing five modern songs gory. While I don't lInderstand all the jargon abollt chord in a row, I get ill. They do Jean, I Did It My Way, Aquarius, I structures and so on, I do understand the message about Gotta' Be Me and Green Grass of Home. Then, when they staying within the rules of the barbershop style. In most cases, encore with Fly Me to the Moon, I really wish we COuld afford the songwriter puts down his melody the way he wants it and to do it! Perhaps they'd be better off there. Basic barbershop the way it should be. Why can't we leave it alonel harmony is good, and we ought to stick with it, A case in point: Recently, I heard a quartet sing an old So ends my soap box diatribe. I joined our Society because favorite, which has been sung a thousand times. In the middle I love our style of singing. I assume all of our members joined of the song, the melody seemed to disappear in a jumble of for the same reason. Let's keep om singing and performing in chords. I was disturbed about the way it sounded, so I asked line with the major objective of the Society - the "preserva the guys who arranged the song for them. They said their tion" of the basic style. tenor, Joe Blow, had done the arrangement. They asked if 1 My thanks to the Rocky Mountai" News, Donald Mills and liked it, and they were offended when 1 answered "no," Joe Pat Hanna for tetting me borrow some of their words to make Blow is a bricklayer, who has little or no musical experience, a point, "The way I see it," if sticking with the basics is good but who does hear chords, He distorted the melody line just so enough for the Mills Brothers, it ought to be good enough for he could hear some "good" chords. What he failed to realize us. 26 THE HARMONIZER Century Club lAs of September 30, 1975) above Society Total Rank Mambers FAR WESTERN astep~ 2. Phoenix, Arizona 155 the 4. San Diego, California 145 6. Peninsula, California 141 7. Riverside, California 136 15. Whittier, California 120 ordinary•.. 24. Honolulu, Hawaii 112 25. Reseda, California 112 r --...... -- 31. Salt Lake City, Utah 105 35. Fresno, California 101 MIO-A TLANTIC 1. Dundalk, Maryland 184 9. Westchester Co., New York .134 10. Livingston, New Jersey 130 14. Fairfax, Virginia 120 18. Montclair, New Jersey 119 22. Alexandria, Virginia 114 28. Allentown-8ethlehem, Pa 108 PIONEER 8. Oakland County, Michigan ,135 16. Grosse Pointe, Michigan 119 20. Detroit, Michigan 117 39. Wayne, Michigan 100 ILLINOIS 11. Arlington Heights, Illinois ..129 byWENGER 19. Lombard, Illinois , 118 26. Bloomington, Illinois 110 Down the hall ... up the slairs... around the town or JOHNNY APPLESEED down the highway ...Wenger's TOURMASTER Risers 23. Warren, Ohio 113 have been designed to meet the action and con· 29. Elyria, Ohio 107 venience requirements of Barbershop Groups on the alan move-within their communities and on extended 33. Stark County, Ohio 103 tours. For Barbershoppers, TOURMASTER has an LAND O'LAKES edge ... tile professional's edge over ordinary risers. ordinary 5. Minneapolis, Minnesota 142 Carpeted steps make TOURMASTER an attractive plaltorm for your performances, Smooth step edges 32. Racine, Wisconsin ... , 104 prevenl clothing snags_ Tile all-steel frame makes price! 38. Green Bay, Wisconsin 100 the risers safe and sturdy-even for intricate chore SOUTHWESTERN ography_ Continuous lIoor contact (no individual 17. Houston, Texas 119 legs) gives you steadiness on uneven floor surfaces. You can roll TOUR MASTER to performance or rehearsal areas and set up in just 10 seconds 27. San Antonio, Texas." 109 per unit! 30. Dallas Metropolitan, Texas .106 CARDINAL 3. Gtr. Indianapolis, Indiana ..153 r------2311A Wenger Building. Owatonna, Minnesota-.,55060 I 21. Louisville, Kentucky 116 I Btt.q~..,.. Phone (507) 451-3010 CENTRAL STATES W 13. Kansas City, Missouri 123 0 Please send me full information and prices on new TOURMASTER. I 34, Denver, Colorado 102 I o Please send me your full-iine catalog, DIXIE I NAME POSITION I 12. Atlanta, Georgia 123 ORGANIZATlON' _ ONTARIO 37. East York, Ontario ...... 100 I ADDRESS TELEPHONE I SENECA LAND ~P 36. Binghamton, New York ....101 .. CI;' _ STAT:' _ __ III NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1975 27 What About Your Commitment? By Harry Neuwirth. 1109 Maple St., Silverton, Oro. 97381 The total annual dues package for Barbershoppers nowa· director should be more inspiring and the chapter program days probably averages somewhere between $30 and $35, planned by your officers should provide a vehicle for your depending on district and chapter assessments. That's not a lot participation and edification. But nobody - NOBODY can by contemporary standards, but far too much if you're not make you excited. Or exciting. That's why this is an inside job. getting a real belt out of our singing hobby. Absorb the idiom * and practice it. If YOll're a lead, make your Well, sir, in our Society, perhaps more than in any other voice bright and exciting and give 'em a stable melody line to organization, you get out only in proportion to what you put harmonize around every time you sing. And then watch 'em in. So, if you've put your money into a sloL/ching seat in the around you at the woodshed hour, and see if you don't feel a back pew at chorus rehearsal, and parlayed it with a swift tingle of excitement at being the center of the "ring." canter out the back door during measure 28 of "Keep America So maybe everybody in your chapter does the same thing Singing," you are a Cash Casualty; you're wasting your money and everybody is excited and exciting and you're still just one and dissipating the excitement that Founder O.C. Cash and of the guys. Such misery. If that happens, live with it. For that gang in Tulsa perpetrated. On the other hand, if you are some things, even SPEBSaSA has no antidote. an excited, "1·love·this·stuff" Barbershopper, expurgate the EXPAND YOUR COMMITMENT!!!! Chapters aren't self above admonition and be about your business; you're getting rejuvenating personalities or ions with a 1,000 year half-life. more than your money's worth and you clon't need to be They need constant attention and that attention can't always reminded of it. come from "these other guys, the officers." Chapters belong Involvement is still the big word in barbershop singing, and to all us chaps and if everyone adds his ideas and enthusiasm, you can't acquire a basic love for the chord at chapter officers' your chapter will have to move to a larger hall and let the training school or Harmony College. Oh, it's true that a few buttons out on everybody's jacket. leads have found inspiration at COTS, and it is said that several part-men have been exercised at one or another of our FIND YOUR NICHE Society's HEP schools, but what we're talking about now is Even so, robust chapters alone don't gllarantee a healthy essentially an inside job; an up-from-the-soul affinity for the district or Society. Your district needs dedicated officers to consonant, four-part sound we call barbershop harmony. Once administer the vital business at that level and to provide the you measure these vibrations way down deep, you're probably basic input to the international board and committees. with us for life and that's great because we need you! "Me again?" What's more, you need us, unless you want to be one of Sure, you again, if that's your patch of sunlight. Or maybe those guys who never makes it to the church on time because your non-singing specialty leans toward the written word and he just doesn't care any more. You know the type: nobody's you can best serve your district (and your own sense of cooking is as good as Mom's was; work is a drudge; leisure is a accomplishment) as a PROBE (Public Relations and Bulletin bore; and girls are only small, soft boys. As a matter of fact, Editors) man. Preserving and encouraging barbershop harmony have you noticed that even Mom's cooking isn't what it used through the medium of publicity, within our own membership to be! and to the rest of the world, through whatever media at your Boredom is like a pear which ripens from the inside out, command can be exciting. PROBE is a new and growing and if you believe that stuff about girls, yOlI may already be subsidiary organization and, since it is just beginning to meet overripe and ready for composting. But hang in there! The its potential, offers broad, expanding horizons to yOLl and process is reversible if you just get involved! YOLlr commitment. WHY DID YOU JOIN? Perhaps you insist that your commitment was, and is, to MAKE A COMMITMENT! You've always liked to sing four-part harmony singing. You've done well in your quartet harmony and you joined the Society because at some time or ting and/or chorus work through the years and feel no another you were convinced that barbershop harmony was corollary call to service. Then you just might be a prime your nest of notes. But now you find yourself back in the candidate for the judging program. If yOLl demand to be pack and it isn't nearly as thrilling as you expected. challenged in your endeavors, you will find great reward in the HANG ON TO YOUR COMMITMENT!! You'll swear, evolving techniques and musical nuance that characterizes our sometimes, that your chapter provides very poor nourishment good old fashioned barbershop style. Judging this vivacious for such high aspirations as you brought with you into the idiom with consistency, tolerance and wisdom is a demanding Society. Not one chapter officer has invited you to sing in his function; effectively communicating their best interests to quartet this year; the director hasn't done anything inspiring each of the competitors at critique could easily be the most for two weeks and you can't remember the last time the skin demanding pursuit of them all. You need a challenge? Judging crawled off your forearm. can put handles on that need. Stage Presence? Absolutely! If GET INSIDE YOUR COMMITMENT!! I Maybe your chorlls you've a flair for the visually dramatic and the subtleties of 28 THE HARMONIZER f& •COMEDYl••••••••RHYTHMl ,.tt'& SOUNDl From Florida to Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan to Japan, the SOUNDSMEN have a knack for turning on audiences everywhere. Spark up your show with the specialists. TRY IT - YOU'LL LIKE IT! Contact (Now!): Jack Macgregor 12 Country Lane Trumbull, Connecticut 06611 (203) 261-3319 body motion and facial expression, then SP is your niche and yOll get a front row seat at all contests. BORED?TELLSOMEONE "THE 4TH EDITION NATURALLV" If you've thought that SPEBSQSA was a Society which 1972 International Queens of Harmony offered four-part harmony singing as the exclusive outlet for our first stereo recording your talents, and have been getting a little bored with those "between times" when no chords are ringing, turn and look at the exciting challenges all around you. Certainly the singing of Includes consonant harmony will continue to be the prime focus of your allegiance, but it can be rewarding to. broaden your areas of participation as a means of providing deeper insight into Mammy-Q-Mine your Society and to help carry you over those rough spots (like when your tenor is drafted by the WAC and you have to Amazing Grace break in a new one). In addition to the few mentioned above, there are many other areas of interest that can benefit from Little Green Apples your time and talents. If none of the balloons raised here caught your fancy, ask your chapter president about it, or Purlie your division vice president, or write to our International Office and say, "Hey, I need a greater challenge; send me Goody Goodbye one," I'll bet that would make a few swivel chairs "swiv." Beat inflation! Revitalize your commitment and get double and others your money's worth! • Idiom absorption can be accelerated by reading the following books: r:7h.G 4 /'{, 6'cliliu Iv BASIC BARBERSHOP CRAFT MANUAL. available from SPEBSQSA, Inn Office; VOCAL TECHNIQUES FOR BARBERSHOPPERS, Mac Please send album (s) $5.50 postpaid Huff, Int" Office ; TONE SYLLABLES, Shawnee Press, Delaware Make checks payable to: The 4th Edition Water Gap. Pa. (free); SOUND, Don Clause, Int'l Office; PHYSICS OF SOUND, Jim Richards, Int'l Office; THE SINGER'S MANUAL OF c/o Connie Noble ENGLISH DICTION, Madeline Marshall, Int" Offico or your local 614 Washington Avenue library; TO SING IN ENGLISH, Dorothy Uris, your local library or bookstore. And much moro - write SPEBSQSA at p.O. Box 575, Louisville. Ohio 44641 Kenosha, Wis. 53141 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER. 1975 29 I see from the bulletins. •• By Leo Fobert, Editor WE'RE GETTING GREAT PUBLICITY barbershop singing. With the right harmo bean growers who met with President Somebody's doing something right ny and balance, an extra note, called an Gerald Ford in Des Moines, la. a short somewhere. We've had three great ex overtone, is produced, and the group time ago. The text of Groots's presen amples of good press within the last two sounds like five men. Congratulationsl' tation to the president appeared in a local months, and all from different areas and "For days afterward I pondered which newSpaper, Our thanks to Fort Dodge covering different aspects of barber new career to choose, science or singing. I member Maurice Thomes for providing us shopping. settled for listening to some barbershop with the information about one of our One of the stories ("When Can a quartet albums, .. " fellow-members who is helping President Quartet Become a Quintet?") was written And then came the fine story in the Ford solve some of his agriculture prob by Boston Sunday Advert;ser Columnist Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine (Sept. lems. Joe Kornfeld, He describes beautifully 21, 1975). Writer Robert Anderson's hearing an overtone for the first time as in-depth feature story on the fifth place SONGS FOR WHITE HOUSE TOURISTS he sang with the medalist "Boston medalist "Soundtracks" describes the Chapters near Washington, D.C. Common." Since many of us have made lives and activities of the men in this (Riverside areal will be a part of a new this same discovery (though perhaps not prominent Society foursome. We only entf!rtainment plan designed to eliminate while singing with a medalist quartet), we wish that space would permit sharing his the long queues for persons touring the want to share with you excerpts from his story with you. Complete with a beauti White House. Starting in early October, account: ful colored photo of the quartet, "The White House visitors were able to relax on "I chose this, the melody line, because Full-time Four-part Harmony Habit," is the grass or on bleachers and listen to I was sure to hit clinkers if I tackled any the kind of written material about our musical entertainment from a stage ID of the more challenging harmony parts. Society we've been looking for for many eated on the Ellipse adjoining the South Blessedly - for I had impertinently re years. Lawn. The program is designed to relieve placed Richard Knapp, the fine lead tenor It's difficult to find enough glowing the tedium of long waiting lines, and (sic) -I blended passably well with the terms to describe the National Observer barbershop harmony has already been high tenor of Kent Martin, the baritone coverage of our recent Harmony College scheduled for one-hour shows on two of Larry Tully, and the bass of Terry written by Bill Marvel (re·printed in this Saturday mornings_ Two Riverside Area Clarke. issue, see page 4). If you haven't already Chapters will be responsible for each of "Suddenly, as we four luxuriated on a done so, go back and read that story right the shows. If the pilot program is success vowel of the final chorus, Perry lEd. now. Like we said at the beginning of this ful it will be used during the Bicentennial note - that's prominent Society arranger, item, we must be doing something right. visitor season next year. Our thanks to Lou) pointed at the ceiling. 'There it is, Dee Paris, Imm. Past President of the the extra voicel' he shouted. MAKES PRESENTATION TO FORD Mid-Atlantic District, for sharing this "And my scientific ears recorded a Merlyn Groot, long-time member of information with us. fifth, sky-high note that nobody in the the Fort Dodge, la. Chapter and President room was singing. At the song's end, Lou of the Iowa Soybean Association, was MID-DAY SINGOUT DIFFICULT had an explanation. 'That's a hallmark of one of three men representing Iowa soy- Our congratulations to the 25 men of the Delaware County (pa.1 Chapter who responded for a noon-hour singout at That's Minneapolis Di famed Children's Hospital in Philadelphia rector Harold Ulring early in May. Beside the chorus, they and approximately 100 were able to put together two quartets Twin City Area Barber and present an impressive program. shoppers as they enter tained before a Twins Special kudos, too, to Chorus Director ballgame late in August. Dave Reed, who had to make a 1QQ-mile Six chapters took part round trip to direct the singout. We know in the 20-minute sing how difficult it is to get a chorus together out. at noon on a work day, especially in a metropolitan area, where men have to take time from work and travel great THE HARMONIZER The Northeastern District celebrated July 4th with a Bicentennial Barbershop Spectacular hold at the Prudential Center Plaza in Boston. Approximately 100 Barbershoppers are shown above as Director Deane Sturgis directed them in singing our national anthem. Participating groups were (I to r): the "Sunday Best" Venice, Fla. Barber shoppers are shown right as they appeared in a hospital singout during the holiday season last year. Re· tired men make up the majority of the chapter and these annual sing outs draw nearly 100% attendance. (Photo cou rtesy momber Carlton F. Smith) NOVEMBER·DECEMBER, 1975 31 antics and display superior goose bumps, "Last time, fellows," - Contraction meaningless in literal form. Meaningful only if followed by: "If you (expletive deleted) get it right." "Good job, fellows." - ill What the heck, it's over and why hold a grudge; (2) That's likely'the best I can expect from you idiots (see "idiots" above), Vibrato -A no-no. "Do as I say, not as _.. " I~- "Ouiet"; "Alright, let's go"; "If you The members and families of the Indianapolis and Louisv'ille Chapters enjoyed a relaxing ladies are ready." -A group of Saturday afternoon in between performances of the Indianapolis Chapter show just two weeks phrases used with minimum impact to before the international convention this year. The "Thoroughbreds" were kind enough to extend interrupt scintillating conversation, a helping hand for the show because of "Indy's" commitment to the convention. sparkling wit and ringing wood I SEE FROM THE BULLETINS - (from page 311 shedding, for incidentals such as member of the Huntington Tri-State alumni association. Our thanks to Bill chorus rehearsal, business, programs, Chapter. Shannon iChagrin Falls, O. Chapter), etc. another alumnus of Baldwin-Wallace, who Sound - (1) Judging category. Likely DEAN SNYDER HONORED was present for the meeting and was kind some simple definition possible but "For his significant contributions to enough to send us all the details. Our prohibited as judges have patented our country's administrative leadership in congratulations to Dean, a regular term and thus are free to use it to the Department of Health, Education and HARMONIZER contributor, a great justify own personal prejudices. (1) Welfare:' Dr. Dean Atlee Snyder, a 1925 Barbershopper and a great man as well. Indefinable isee No. 1 above) but graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College desirable quality much sought after by (Berea, 0.), was one of six to be honored FAMILIAR WITH THESE PHRASES? directors. by the alumni association during its annu In an effort to make singing more "Sounds all gone to (expletive al meeting at the college's commence pleasurable for new members, the deleted)" - Director noting absence of ment weekend last June 12-14. Dean Calgary, Alta. "Note-ator" (Editor above. received an honorary doctor of laws "Eikrem and Co.") included the fol "Garbage, bloody garbage." - Term of degree from Baldwin-Wallace in 1946: lowing glossary of commonly used ex mild reproach denoting loss of over Dean's services as a leader, officer and pressions and words: tones. historian of our Society, while well 97% (as in "I want you to give me 97%") "Just a few announcements," known to most Barbershoppers, were - Apoplexy minus 3%. Absolutely meaningless. mentioned in the information detailing Idiots - il) Collective noun used as term Our Canadian friends didn't indicate his numerous accomplishments. As a of endearment; (2) idiots. whether or not these terms helped their special tribute to Dean, a quartet, the Overtone -A narcotic taken by ear. First new singing friends. We have an idea they "Great Bunch of Guys:' (Lakewood, 0.) exposure gives mild, pleasant sensa did, though, 'cuz we've all heard the same rounded out the evening as they sang for tion, but further use leads to irrevers language many times. Just think back to and with Dean. Bass of the foursome, ible addiction. Symptoms include the last chorus rehearsal you attended Dan Mahuta, is a past president of the goosebumps and those with advanced and you'll recall hearing similar addictions, upon shooting up, show a A five-year member of the Green Bay, Wis. "glowing" terms, or at least equally "ef· Chapter, Mike Monfils is shown below with tendency to yell and perform various fective" terms. wife Mary after being elected Mayor of the City of Green Bay. The youngest mayor the city has ever had, Monfils was 36 years old when he Five members of the took office. "Vocal Majority" leur rent chorus champsi are flying high since they became champions ... and before, too, for that matter. All five are commercial airline pi· lots! From teft, they are Keith Houts, "Red" McDonald, "Chuck" Nester, Phil Hawkins and Jim Denton. Sorry, they have no quartet aspirations ... not with four leads and one tenor. 32 THE HARMONIZER Bargain Basement (YOU CAN DISPOSE OF THOSE OLD UNIFORMS, HATS, CANES, VESTS, ETC, BY PLACING AN AD IN THiS DEPARTMENT. SPACE IS AVAILABLE AT THE LOW RATE OF $5 PER COLUMN INCH (WITH A $6 MINIMUM CHARGE), COpy SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY NO LATER THAN THE 6TH OF THE MONTH PRECEDING DATE OF PUBLICATION (1.6. AUG. 6 FOR SEPT.-OCT. ISSUE). TO THE HIGHEST RATED WANTED - Quartet calling cards. Help me add FOR SALE - About 80 green and black formal MUSIC to my collection. Send your card to Larry W. uniforms, drastically reduced for quick sale Lewis, 1416 S. Union St., Shawano, Wis. 54166 ($15 each), Contact: Tom Barber, Angushire Apts" No. 123, Rt. 7, St, Cloud, Minn. 56301. PRINTING ATTENTiON NEW CHAPTERSI UNIFORM GIVE·AWAYI 40 Tux Jackets and pants sizes FOR SALE - 26 Gold Edwardian coats IN THE UNITED STATES 30-48 - Gold lapels and collar on jacket. (C·6121 in Society uniform catalog). Worn "ASK ANY PUBLISHER" Raised black braided strip on pants - Price t\vice. All for $250. Contact: Jim Stockton, each: $15. Contact: Karl W. Lambert, 930 1567 Mintz Avo., Fayetteville, N.C. 28303 Englewood Dr., Chesapeake, Va. 23320, Phone: (9191488·4228. BOOKS ANO LOOSELEAF ARRANGEMENTS PUBLISHED FOR SALE - 36 to 38 chorus uniforms, brown CHORUS DIRECTOR WANTED - Arlington, BY THE SOCIETY ARE coats, gold trousers, gold felt hats, reversible Tox. Chapter, located in the oallas·Ft. Worth PRINTED BY. brown or gold cravats, string bow ties, gold Metroplex within 30 minutes of General gloves, gold spats. Good condition - $20 for Dynamics, Bell Helicopter and L.T .V. Aero· each complete uniform or make offer. Con spaco plants, and, boasting an active member· tact: Bob Edwards, 507 Alpine Rd., Winston ship of over sixty members and three quartets, Salem, N.C. 26104 Phone: 19191768·3416 seeks a qualified, "grass roots," resident chorus nights; or 748·5475 days. director. Recent oxperience in contest judging and/or competilion helpful. Located in ono of FOR SALE - 75 chorus uniforms, lime-green the nation's lowest cost·of·living areas, with an excellent climate, and, near great recreational DIVISION OF THE with black trousers, black bow tie, and white facilities. Also near four other fine barbershop WALTER M. CARQUEVILLE COMPANY gloves. In good condition with a variety of sizes chapters. We have much to offer and we do. 2200 ESTES. ELK GROVE. ILL. 60007 for only $22.50 each. Contact: Cliff Vogel, Contact: Glenn C. Hutton, Jr., 2816 Texas Dr., (AIC 312) 625-3915 or 439-8700 1440 Beechmcadow Ln., Cincinnati, O. 46238. Phone:. (513) 451·2569. Arlington, Tex. 76016 Phone: (8171261·9551 FOR SALE - UNIFORMS, 2 complete sots. HELPI I'm looking for one 1969 chorus al One set (47 uniforms) has eye-catching bright bum. Can you help me? Contact: Rick Ogden, yellow blazers with cocoa brown trousers. Only 12305 N.E. 12th Ct., Miami, Fla, 33161 WHEN WILL WE LEARN? 2 years oldl Second set (39 uniforms) sky blue An article in the Southwest Suburban blazers with dark blue piping anti dark blue FOR SALE - 61 uniforms, tux typo gold jack trousers, Blue blazers have largo embroidered (111.1 Chapter's "Woodshedder" written ets and gold Ilants, black trim. Fivo years old, Society emblem on breast pocket. Ideal for by Editor Jack Baird is worth a reprint: good condition - $1 ,000 postpaid. Contact: growing chorusos. $25 per uniform OR, take John H. Bassarear, 5275 Callo Del CielVo, "I recently received a request from a both sots off our hands and pay only $20 per Tucson, Ariz. 85718. Phone: (602)299·9860. woman who was considering using a uniform. Sizes 38 through 54. We also have 43 cream colored crepe bolero shirts, worn only quartet as a 'filler' during the time people FOR SALE - Over 40 metallic gold formal would be registering for a national square twice, at $5 per shirt. Photos available, Con· coats with black lapels $10 each (soveral black tact: Dan George, 130 Nevada Ave" Staten dance festival. She felt that barbershop tux trousers thrown in with the lotI. Contact: Isl8nd, N.V. 1030Q. Phone (212)987·6687. harmony would not be inappropriate Glenn Hutton, Jr., 2815 Texas Dr., Arlington, before a six-hour session of square FOR SALE - 46 black and silver brocade Tex. 76016. dancing. jackets, black pants, satin trimmed. Assorted sizes. $20 Qach. 10 extra pants included. Can· FOR SALE - About 80 green and black formal "One of my customers told of driving tact: Gene V. Sickels, N64 W19424 Mill Rd., uniforms, drastically roduced for quick sale over 200 miles to hear an all·day drum Menomonee Falls, Wis. 53051 Phone: ($15 each), Contact: Tom Barber, Angushiro and bugle corps contest. He was looking 14141262-4115. .Apts., No. 123, Rt. 7, St, Cloud, Minn. 56301. forward to what he called 'almost twelve hours of that glorious music: twelve hours of drum and bugle music; one of the Society's finest tenors (of the "Last weekend the Jordans and Bairds and a weekend of traditional jazz - these 1950 champion "Buffalo Bills" and Music took in the World's Championship of groups all have a lot of respect for the Man fame). A story in the August, 1975 traditional jazz - twenty-four 45·minute traditions they are trying to 'encourage' issue of Money, "Back to the Simple periods of this exciting music. I couldn't and 'preserve.' People involved in these Life," includes interesting information help but compare the two days of jazz activities do not feel the need to perform about Vern and his wife Mary, who are with the average two or three·hour other styles to satisfy their own personal now the owners of a. small crafts shop in barbershop show. There were almost no· preferences. I wonder if Barbershoppers Burlington, Vt. near Lake Champlain, jokes, no dirty stories, no obscene ges· will ever learn to do the same?" which they operate together. Our thanks tures, no novelty acts, no apologies for to Milwaukee, Wis. member Ray sticking to one kind of music - and no Scroggins for clipping the article and one said 'now for something a bit more REED MAKES "MONEY" sending it to us. The article included a contemporary.' It's our Vern Reed we're writing picture of Vern and Mary, both of whom "Six hours of square dance music; about, and surely everyone remembers look great. NOVEMBERDECEMBER, 1975 33 MEET YOUR STAFF - (from page 11) championship. In addition, Stevens has 20 years experience in the commercial music field, primarily in broadcasting and MUSIC DEPT. recording. He received his Bachelor of Music Education from A Music Services Assistant, Malcolm (Mac) L. Huff travels DePauw University in 1941 and his Master's from North· across the United States and Canada conducting seminars for western in 1947. His background in education includes acting local chapters, their music directors and quartets. He is as music instructor for the Chicago Campus Chorale of especially concerned with quartet encouragement, quartet Northwestern University, San Francisco Conservatory of Music coaching and the teaching of vocal techniques for Barbershop· and the San Francisco Unified School District (Adult Edu· pcrs. A long·time member, he directed the Evansville, Ind. cation Division). Stevens lives in Kenosha. chorus for 15 years and sang bass with the "Funtastic Four," a quartet which in 1961 were Cardinal District Champions. He FINANCE & AornlNlsTRATION DEPT. has served as an Arrangement Category Judge and coached Robert J. (Bob) Meyer is Manager of the Membership quartets and choruses for 15 years. He joined S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. Services Department for the Society. Bob, whose employment as a full·time employee in 1969. Huff is a graduate of Indiana be9an July 1, 1956, is the senior member of the International State University where he majored in choral music. He has Office staff. For many years he served as administrative been directing choral groups and teaching privately (music assistant, but in June, 1965, when the Society automated its theory and voice) for the past 20 years. Huff, his wife Jo membership records, Meyer supervised the change-over and Anne, and his four children live in Kenosha. assumed duties as manager of the membership records depart Joe E. Liles, the Society's newest Music Services Assistant, ment. In 1972 a computer was acquired for which he designed joined the staff on Sept. 1, 1975. A member since 1968, Joe new systems and now serves as programmer. It is as a musician has been director of the San Antonio "Chordsmen" chorus that Meyer is best known to the membership, for many of his since 1969. He is a certified Arrangement judge and has served arrangements have been sung by quartets and choruses across on the Harmony College faculty for the past three years. Joe is the country. A native of Detroit, Meyer graduated from Wayne working in the chorus development program with special State University with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in theory emphasis on chorus director training. Liles holds a B.A. degree and composition. He has been playing piano and organ in from Baylor University, a M. Mus. (theory and composition) bands, small combos and as a soloist since he was 18, He has from Southern (Louisville) Seminary and has completed thirty written several instrumental compositions for various groups hours toward a Doctorate in music (conducting·performance and recently has turned to song writing and directing local emphasis) at the University of Texas. He has been employed as music productions. Meyer is married, and he and his wife Elva project manager in the mental health services department of live in Kenosha with their three children, two boys and one Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio. Joe, wife Kay and girl. three children are living in Kenosha. Another new employee, Margaret A. York is Merchandise David M. Stevens is a Society Music Services Assistant, and Manager in the finance and administration department. York is as such he travels across the United States and Canada a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with conducting seminars for chapters, their music directors and a B.S. degree in business management. She joined the staff on quartets. Stevens is a long-time Barbershopper, having coached June 16 this year. The mother of two school·age children, quartets and directed choruses in the San Francisco area for Margaret is interested in painting, gardening and playing many years. In 1957 his Berkeley chorus won the international bridge. The Yorks presently make their home in Racine, Wis. BARBERSHOPPERS NEVER SPEBSQSAted - (from page 5) OUR CHAMPIONSHIP YEAR - (from page 23) to fly to Kansas City with us for the international convention A party, with the inevitable ice cream, follows. More in June. quartets get up and sing. At midnight the last barbershoppers We were ready and eager to go to Kansas City for the are pushed out the door, but the woodshedding goes on in the convention. We were excited about the opportunity to say halls and out on the lawn under the stars. They are like lovers, "thank you" to our new found friends. We had new uniforms unwilling to say goodnight. I drift off to sleep about 1 a.m. to and we really thought we were pretty sharp. Then we stood in the sound of barbershop, drifting in from some corner of the the wings of the theater as they introduced the "Buffalo Bills" dormitory. in their period-type costumes. They were beautiful! The The next morning they are still at it. As I pass the yellow audience was just thrilled to see them, and they sang like they school buses on their way to Kansas City International looked I While we were surely pleased to see them do so well, Airport, I 91impse barbershoppers at the windows, mouths we also had that pain in the pit of the stomach tellin9 us the open in unheard song. moment of truth was near. We had to follow them! And who could have resisted the airport terminal building, In true barbershop style, though, we were as warmly with its great vaulted ceilin9 and its polished marble floors, a accepted as we had been a year earlier. With tears in our eyes, natural echo chamber? The music floats from the ticket we said a most sincere thank you as we sang the farewell counter line and from the snack bar, dim and shimmering, arrangement that Johnnie Means had prepared. With 110 little threads of sound ascending through the morning. performances behind us, the end had come to the most There are sounds that stick with you, ringing in your ears eventful year in our lives. long after you've left them behind. I imagined barbershop for So truly Toledo had not been the "be9inning of the end," hours aftolWard, in the whine of jet engines, in the murmur of but only the "end of the beginning." Coming in January: the traffic. I still hear it from time to time, next nine years. 34 THE HARMONIZER r------;;;-;~=_;:;_;;:_=_:;"==;;__----. PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT ' ,, . STATEMENT REQUIRED BY THE ACT Inc., 6316 Third Avenue, Kenosha, Wis ~. OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY consin. \::.- THE ACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, JULY 2, 1946 AND JUNE 11. 1960 (74 STAT. 208) 3. 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TOTAL .... , ...... , . 27,521 1,475,897 Columbine, Denver, Colorado 80210, President. NOVEMBER·DECEMBER. 1975 35 MAIL «GALL Th;, d,p"'m.n' of 'h. HARMONIZER ;,from harmony reserved for you, our readers. It contains written expressions regarding your magazine or any other segment of the Society. their services, but is there any way you ment probably had its beginning with a As nearly as possible, letters should be sharp-eared Barbershopper and a record Iimi:'Jd to 250 words, The HARMONI ZE R can really pay enough to keep such talent reserves the right to edit all letters and will not on the job for twelve and fourteen hours player. When these arrangements are sung publish unsigned letters or letten which may be a day for seven days? in contests today, many of the competi in poor tane. They gave much. tors are getting poor scores from the new FINDS STORY INTERESTING And, of course, Bob Johnson. The ARRANGEMENT (ARR) category. Ex Geneva, N.Y, man with the big job, the big view and amples of these songs include My Ideal, Many thanks for the very enlightening the commanding voice. No one has ever Mother Machree and Roll Out of Bed and interesting article, "Institute Has accused "Father" 80b of an excess of With a Smile. Adult Rehabilitation Program," diffidence, but beneath that stern eye and There are several reasons for the poor I hope everyone who read it was big growl is the heart of a kitten, and he, scores. One, the original sha.rp-eared Bar inspired to continue to work to help in too, gave; perhal?S more t1ian anyone. bershopper may not have been hearing this important, necessary and gratifying Before anyone gets the notion that too well, and may have written down the program. Harmony College, 1975 was a lovefeast, wrong melody for the lead, or wrong Claire (Mrs. AI) Learned let it be said that there were other growls chords. A HEAP OF GIVING heard in those neat, new halls, and there Two, extra added attractions may have Silverton, Ore. was anxiety and frustration. Opinions been added to the arrangement since it If it is, indeed, "more blessed to give were split open and tempers rose and was taken' off the record, again resulting than to receive," then a small host of chords were framed that had better been in wrong melodies, bad chords and other transients heaped much glory upon them uttered in Omaha at the stockyard. The faults. selves in St. Joseph, Mo. during the first desire to learn prevailed, though, and Three, even if the arrangement is week of August this year. through it all the givers continued to give, exactly like the record, there may still be The transient "givers" were the faculty and the bottom line will certainly show some problems, because arrangers in the members of Harmony College who gave that this Harmony College was highly 50s and 60s took some liberties with the themselves completely to their task for profitable to everyone. barbershop style, and used some tech one solid week of days that extended well Advice to those who are wondering niques which are no longer considered into the night. That's a lot of giving, but about next year: it's a tremendous ex "good barbershop" in the new ARR there was more. The staff of Missouri perience. Don't miss it if you can! category. These deviations include uses of Western caught the spirit of giving and Harry Neuwirth sixth chords where the melody doesn't provided services and menus that were DISLIKES CALLISTHENICS require them; swipes which are so lon9 nothing short of inspired. And when you Leucadia, Cal. that they distort the form of the song by reflect upon a full week of inspired The "Question and Answer" depart add ing beats and sometimes even eating, you have the basis for a lot of ment of the Jan. issue brought to mind a measures; and frequent melody changes blessedness. pet peeve I've wanted to share with to get around trouble spots. But even that isn't the end of it, someone for quite a while. The answer to the problem of low because two of our fine champion quar I'm really "turned off" by emcees who AR R scores is very simple: have an AR R tets, the "Happiness Emporium" and the involve the audience in callisthenics or judge take a look at any unpublished "Dealer's Choice," gave their time and guessing games. arrangement before you sing it in contest. talent to entertain students and faculty If the emcee has that much time on his All of the AR R judges stand ready to and display their virtuosity as alumni of hands why not a community sing? perform this service for you. Just send Harmony College. Frank Riedel them a legible copy of the arrangement, a Jody Garland (from the International OLD ARRANGEMENTS A "NO,NO" stamped self-addressed envelope, and, if Office) was everywhere at St. Joseph. Cincinnati, O. possible, a copy of the original sheet What a peach. The gal must have nine It's always been fun to sing songs in mtlSic. The ARR judge may not be able lives. And Mac Huff and Dave Stevens contest that nobody else sings, so some to guarantee you a high score, but he can and Hugh Ingraham and Joe Liles; each competitors are "rediscovering" old save you from disaster. functioning in his special field and each favorite arrangements which have been So, "get out those old records ... " getting raves from his students and co taken off of old quartet and chorus but for listening only! horts. Of course these people are paid for records. Almost any handwritten arrange- Don Gray 36 THE HARMONIZER From Our House to Your House •.. These Albums Include Your Favorites ... 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